If you need a graphical desktop; It might be worthwhile looking at XStreamOS from Sonicle, they have done loads of work on the desktop software stack, and have Libreoffice and Firefox, etc all working.
I however have stuck with OpenIndiana, but I'm using the hipster branch, but it is essentially "beta" where no guarantee is made on breakage. On 22 April 2015 at 01:42, Carl Brewer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > I have been a _long_ time user of OpenSolaris, then OI, now stuck on oi > 151a8 for some time as pkg updates stopped working after that release - > some careless dependancy mess just broke it and it was too hard to sort out. > > Anyway ... I use it to run Virtualbox (GUI) and some smb/nfs shares on my > home LAN, and the box is getting a little old. So I'm due to update the > hardware soon. VB isn't perfect on this platform, I get network hangs > every random interval (so I reboot the server every night to work around > this - urgh ...), but it works and does what I want. > > What's the recommendation of the list with regards to updating this to a > new distribution? Hipster? Or one of the others, nexenta etc? All I want > is the Virtualbox GUI, Virtualbox and SMB/NFS shares on top of ZFS. I don't > want to use xen or any of the other virtualisers out there at the moment, I > am happy and comfortable with VB and want to stick with it. It mostly > "just works" and my scripts are written around it. I am currently running > an Intel i5 CPU with 32GB of RAM and a RAIDZ and mirror (mirror for root, > RZ for a big fileshare). > > It will be a mostly implement-and-rust box, I will update the OS if it's > convenient (as OS/OI was until the pkg updates broke at 151aX), but will > mostly leave it alone. > > thanks! > > Carl > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
