[OpenIndiana-discuss] Replacing Solaris 10 u8

[Toomas Soome]

> On 24. Mar 2021, at 02:50, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
> 
> My Solaris 10 u8 instance is rather dated.  I'd like to update it, but there are some absolute requirements:
> 
> Sun/Forte/Oracle Developer Studio

If that is required, then the only option are solaris 11.4, oracle linux 6 & 7, redhat 6 & 7.

> twm window manager on at least one screen
> ZFS filesystem
> must be stable long term

That is a tricky one.

rgds,
toomas

> 
> If needed I'll consider creating and supporting an LTS branch of Hipster.
> 
> Split screen with MATE on one screen and twm on another is acceptable.  I ran dtwm on one screen of u8  until I took it off line.  I did that by playing games with CDE.  15 years ago it was the only option.  MATE is tolerable for applications that need all that window management stuff.  But a clean dual screen twm and no external network would be just fine.  Moving the cable on a 4 TB USB OTG disk is just fine with me.
> 
> For some reason, about a month ago u8 quit saving core files.  I spent several hours reading man pages today trying to figure out what is wrong.  Dumpadm(1m) will not let me set either swap or /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/dump as the dump device.  It's not a space issue as the root pool has about 50 GB free.  Having worked reliably for 10 years it's  rather annoying.
> 
> I'm *really* tired of this cage fight.
> 
> Reg
> 
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