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OpenIndiana Hipster 2022.10 Released With Updates For This OpenSolaris-Derived OS
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In July I wrote about my latest experience trying to do day-to-day work with OpenIndiana, and it's still frustratingly buggy / incompatible with software I use effortlessly on Linux (or even macOS). I guess I keep trying to use OI because of sentimental reasons -- it was my first encounter with a Unix OS (SunOS) that was both scary and intriguing at the time.
Tribblix is an interesting alternative to try out. It doesn't have all of the 'baggage' that OI has and is almost fun. Unfortunately Tribblix too cannot run everything I need compared to Linux or macOS.
I look forward to the day when I can run OI or Tribblix full-time, just because.
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Originally posted by Beherit View Post
I wouldn't say Oracle really killed OpenSolaris, rather that it evolved into OpenIndiana. What really did (mostly) kill OpenIndiana is the idiot who thought it was a cool/good/awesome idea to name it Hipster. Most people would, rightfully, avoid having anything to do with hipsters. It's gotta be one of the worst software name choices in history. One of the most predictable jokes in this forum is the name of ReiserFS whenever it's mentioned, and that the current devs don't rebrand it into something better. Same goes for OpenIndiana Hipster.
A shame really, a really missed opportunity for some good competition to Linux and the BSD's. 10 years ago.
They did because OpenSolaris project was killed by the fact that Oracle stopped providing code after they acquired Sun. illumos was created after that.
About name - yeah, not a big fan of it either.
I didn't know about them, thank you for links.
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Last time i tried OpenIndiana I couldn't get it to work in KVM.
So. Maybe i can give it another try.
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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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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 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
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 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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