2014-12-24 1:47, Garrett D'Amore via illumos-discuss пишет:
For closest match to what you have, OpenIndiana. But if you can sacrifice the
desktop and just need server bits without a gui I would recommend OmniOS as it
is maintained a bit more with commercial backing.
SmartOS is compelling but probably will require you to change quite a bit. It
is quite different from traditional Solaris in administrative approach.
You're probably going to have to reinstall whatever you choose. We haven't
really done a good job keeping upgrade from OpenSolaris maintained.
Indeed, especially if the OS in question is SXCE.
You could try OpenSXCE if you want GUI - according to Martin's README's
his distro has maybe the best GUI support of all Solarises, ranging from
drivers to Adobe Flash. And it is SVR4-based which gives a slight chance
of an in-place upgrade more or less (at least by reading the list of
package names from your active /var/sadm/pkg and installing their newer
equivalents into a new or cloned BE).
For non-GUI OmniOS can be a good choice, though finding some utilities
(either locally in non-apparent paths, or in some differently-named
packages, or not in omniti repos at all but rather pkgsrc, etc.) - that
was tricky in my first installation.
Keep in mind that it might not be technically required to wipe your old
disk for reinstallation - I "upgraded" a server from SXCE snv_117 into
oi_151a8 by "zfs send"ing the new BE into the old rpool and then doing
lots of chiseling about configs, device names (especially networking
and disks), installing an equivalent set of packages (remotely from
the donor OI system, over NFS pointing to that alternate rootfs under
construction), brought over a dozen zones (and finally split off their
application data into separate datasets, so the system could be booted
into OI or SXCE and run the same services, while it was transitioning),
etc. FWIW, the rpool is still ancient-versioned and can boot SXCE back.
OI did not have any substantial problems running over that.
That was a fun adventure, I learned a lot more about the inner workings
of the OS and BE management, but boy was it difficult :-)
I might want to do it again sometime though, a few more snv_117's are
still waiting for their turn to upgrade... maybe to OmniOS this time ;)
Hacky Christmas to you too,
Jim Klimov
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