OpenIndiana Hipster 2018.04, Drops GNOME 2 For MATE + Adds KPTI For Meltdown

[jollyd]

oh yea.. don't waste your time and d/l that OS if you have Intel GFX > Generation 8 (eg starting from Broadwell) still no suport

The Intel driver has been a moving target for some time, some hardware bugs hit the illumos version, and it takes a lot of resources to port the changes from a codebase that has diverged considerably.
I did waste a lot of time on porting to recent versions but it is not trivial, and just ENOTIME...

[Guest]

Despite you might be right or not (I reserve my personal opinion, but I use Linux-based systems most of the time), your comment is totally out of the blue.

OpenIndiana project is making nice things and they are a very friendly project. I consider they deserve more support and constructive efforts than just bashing them.

Let me remind you something: They aren't part of Oracle, consider them the equivalent of LibreOffice in the Solaris world. That's good enough to me to support them.

Anyway, I consider the project is severely poisoned by the CDDL trap. I hope licenses like this would get legally invalidated someday, as they are used for evil anti-competitive tactics against other popular licenses such as GPL ones.

I know OpenIndiana is something totally different. That's why I was talking about Oracle Solaris.

[mskarbek]

Nobody sane would ever invest in this shit.

Samsung did but I have to agree that "sane" may be not the best word to describe Samsung. They bought Joyent which develops SmartOS - illumos downstream project which is OpenSolaris fork.