[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

[Reginald Beardsley]

Firefox makes OI unusable with less than 4 GB of RAM. Surely a well crafted miniroot will comfortably fit in that space with enough RAM left to run any of the programs.

I'm trapped in a car and medical offices all day. But I've got all the Solaris u9 manuals on an iPad. Can't stand to read while driving, but it's fine for the waiting room.

Reg

     On Thursday, March 4, 2021, 11:04:19 AM CST, Chris <oidev at sunos.info> wrote:  
 
 On 2021-03-04 08:45, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Thursday, March 4, 2021 11:18 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> Both OmniOS and Tribblix don't have this failure mode as they don't have 
>> the
>> split boot. We just get the bootloader to slurp the entire OS into memory.
>> It's
>> the sort of trick that isn't really practical for the GUI boot, though.
>> 
> 
> Uhm, SquashFS anyone? We are a desktop system so we should use a desktop
> technology. Why don't change for the superior and proved solution? And as I 
> saw
> they even used SquashFS for cli only Linux without any problems. Or it's NIH
> syndrome? Or just hate Linux? Or we must adhere to the tradition of 
> OpenSolaris
> and not allowed to change anything? Otherwise we will become less Solarish! 
> Isn't
> it?
It's not so much the space on media that's the problem, as the space in RAM 
that
poses the restrictions. SquashFS is only small when it's compressed on media.

--Chris
> 
> BTW, you didn't answered me about how to do full screen with Tribblix on
> VirtualBox, Peter. Looking forward to you.
> 

-- 
~10yrs a FreeBSD maintainer of ~160 ports
~40yrs of UNIX

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