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

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 4:10 PM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

>  With this piece of utter nonsense I am going to depart from the
> conversation in hopes that the actual subject can be addressed in a
> sensible fashion at a later time. I have other things to do and it's quite
> clear that there is no reason to "upgrade" from 2017.10 any time soon.
> There is far too much that needs to be fixed. When the name "Hipster"
> appeared it made me uneasy. Unfortunately my concerns have been confirmed.
>

Your issues have nothing to do with OI itself I am afraid.

We ship vanilla illumos without any modification and when it comes to
Nvidia drivers they simply do not support illumos i.e. if they "work" we
are just lucky.


>
> BTW I'm not running an OI server and have never said I was. SunOS has been
> my preferred native work environment for 30 years. As I don't wish to
> gamble with having Solaris 10 u8 connected to the internet, I use OI for
> internet and casual computing tasks. The shift from an Atom netbox to a
> Z400 to run OI resulted in my tending to do more casual computing on OI.
>
> McKusic's most recent book arrived yesterday and I wish to find out what
> he has to say this time. Even if I never use FreeBSD as my working
> environment I'm sure I'll learn more than enough to justify the time spent.
>
> Reg
>
>      On Friday, March 5, 2021, 04:28:08 AM CST, cretin1997 via
> openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
>
>  ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Friday, March 5, 2021 3:34 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) <
> udo.grabowski at kit.edu> wrote:
>
> > On 05.03.21 07:56, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> >
> > > ...
> > > Trust me, man. SquashFS is a superior technology ...
> >
> > > It's the superior technology ...
> >
> > From my decades of experience, if I read such sentences,
> > I immediately know it's not. Superior.
> > It's just another "something", surrounded by Hipsters
> > trying to generate a hype around it.
>
> Except this time you are wrong. You just use experience to beat other
> people. You have no first hand experience with SquashFS and no knowledge
> about it. I suggest download a live Linux system from distrowatch, you
> could choose a random distro, boot it live system, play with it for a
> while, and realize how behind we are to Linux in term of live system
> technology.
>
> >
> > > .... and is the answer to our problem.
> >
> > ? What problem ? What you are talking about ? Why
> > not using Linux when everything there is superior
> > and solves your problems ? What you are doing here ?
> >
>
> Yeah yeah I know. You are the best! Others are rubbish! You don't have to
> learn anything from others but only them learn from you! Yeah, they really
> did just that. They learned and imported ZFS from you and now their ZoL
> implementation becomes upstream, your implementation is lagged behind.
> Yeah, SystemD learned from SMF and FMA, but just superior because they
> don't use everything XML like yours. Yeah, I know all of that.
>
> Childish behavior like yours only caused the interested people to go away.
> And I really considered to go away. But the fact is I see I still can do
> something useful with OI and don't want to give up too soon. Yeah, I know,
> from my experience on this mail list, give up is most of the time the
> answers! Sooner or later, I will have to give up. But I don't want to give
> it up too soon. Got it?
>
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