Thanks, I'll have a look. Do you know if it can run Virtualbox? On 22 April 2015 7:10:31 PM AEST, Jonathan Adams <[email protected]> wrote: >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
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