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OpenIndiana Hipster 2022.10 Released With Updates For This OpenSolaris-Derived OS
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Originally posted by jacob View Post
The name is terrible but I think the biggest hurdle for OpenIndiana's adoption was its deliberately GPL-incompatible licence. Plus the fact that from a FOSS point of view, it always felt like a solution looking for a problem. For those who want open source Unix, there are the BSDs, for everyone else there is Linux, and OpenIndiana doesn't seem to offer any compelling feature against those more established players.
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Originally posted by evert_mouw View Post
Well, they've got ZFS deeply integrated. Maybe of interest are Zones and some other advanced features, dunno, I've no need for it myself. Maybe nowadays for Linux is a better updated ZFS (ZoL) but less well integrated. I have OmniOS installed on one machine, just for storage/backups, os installation was a breeze.
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Originally posted by birdie
And, no, I'm not creating a new thread for this because basically no one reads Phoronix Forums outside of news comments.
Does anyone know where OI's ZFS and OpenZFS stand? Like, can OI's ZFS open a ZoL 2.1.7 volume? From what I can tell that's a no since their features don't align.
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Originally posted by jacob View Post
Zones were the first, but now FreeBSD and Linux have the same feature (and Windows too by the way). ZFS was well integrated but I don't see it as something worry changing platforms for
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Originally posted by kylew77 View PostI've always wanted to run either OpenIndiana or Triblex as a daily driver just to see how it is. I remember using openSolaris in university around 2012 and being impressed with it but it was running so slow on our workstations back then.
What I liked a lot is that even under heavy load my Solaris/SPARC workstation continued to work while the much more powerful Intel/Linux workstations in the same circumstances trudged like hell.
It was a tank (slow but unstoppable) vs a Ferrari (fast but can be halted with moderate diffuculties)
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Originally posted by jacob View Post
The name is terrible but I think the biggest hurdle for OpenIndiana's adoption was its deliberately GPL-incompatible licence. Plus the fact that from a FOSS point of view, it always felt like a solution looking for a problem. For those who want open source Unix, there are the BSDs, for everyone else there is Linux, and OpenIndiana doesn't seem to offer any compelling feature against those more established players.
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Originally posted by Nozo View PostIt's the same issue that BSDs already have on the desktop, they don't offer anything new that Linux already offers, it's the sad truth. The only one that managed to achieve something similar was PC-BSD and then died.
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