Thanks All for the nice welcome and I look forward to testing out OI as well as trying to contribute a bit along the way during the course of my projects.
I actually, just tried to boot the OI (Hipster) live iso on an 64-bit AMD test machine that I have been running Ubuntu 16.04 and although it does boot up reasonably well, but I found that it does not recognize my network cards "Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet" and "Broadcom Limited BCM43228 802.11 a/b/g/n" wireless. Actually, it seems to see them in the device list, but it does not activate them so perhaps I need some drivers if they are available. Cheers, Lonnie On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Nikola M <minik...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/ 7/17 12:26 PM, openbabel wrote: > >> Greetings All, >> >> I would like to add that if you have a particular interest in helping the >> desktop environment advance we would welcome your imput. >> >> Robert Jones >> > > Just to add.. > ...and would also welcome posting answer to messages, below quotes :) > > > > >> >> On 07/11/2017 07:53, Nikola M wrote: >> >>> On 11/ 7/17 01:34 AM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: >>> >>>> Greetings All, >>>> >>>> I have used many operating systems over the years and lately have been >>>> using Windows (all flavors) as well as Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, Gentoo, >>>> etc...) bu mostly have been using Ubuntu 16.04 as my desktop for some >>>> time >>>> now. >>>> >>>> Currently, I am gearing up to do a couple of projects which have the >>>> Illumos base which are in the SmartOS arena, but it made me start to >>>> wonder >>>> if I should also consider loading up OpenIndiana Hipster as my desktop >>>> so >>>> that I can become more familiar with it as it seems to have many >>>> similarities as SmartOS and wanted to get the opinion of the OI >>>> community >>>> as to what they thought about it as a day-to-day OS? >>>> >>>> Mostly just exploring the possibility of nuking Ubuntu in favor of >>>> installing OI for a while to see how it runs. >>>> >>>> Any comments, experiences, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. >>>> >>> >>> Firstly , Openindiana is the distribution name because /hipster >>> (lowercase) is not OS/distribution name, but a repository name. >>> I welcome you to illumos distributions, Unix-derived family. (It is >>> truly derived from Unix and not just Unix-like) >>> >>> Openindiana is a server-oriented UK-hosted OS that have a desktop. OI >>> has 'snapshots' twice a year (not a releases per se, since they are not >>> supported to be updated as such like in Ubuntu) and in the meantime there >>> are contiuous updates of fresh and 'vanilla' illumos updates and the effort >>> of contributors in 'userland' source repository to make it better, more bug >>> free and add fundamental features, where Alexander Pyhalov is standing out >>> together with all other important contributors. >>> >>> Having a MATE desktop, Firefox ESR and LibreOffice (from SFE >>> repository), Openindiana is enough for everyday use of internet services >>> and using Solaris zones (those might end up hosted in the illumos based >>> cloud), but it is sure that some device driver support might lacking or >>> trailing behind a bit. >>> You can also bootstrap Joyent SmartOS userland and use it in the window, >>> using pkgsrc packages, separately installed, in the terminal emulator and >>> have it together with OI desktop experience. There are also Boot >>> Envornments on top of ZFS that makes both testing and production use more >>> reliable and predictive experience etc. >>> >>> So you can count on frequent and inclusive experience, that would demand >>> of you to be more included in the development of the OI itself, not only by >>> posting bug reports or driver support requests, but it could also allow you >>> to be more directly involved (and more appreciated) then in some other >>> distributions you could. So it's both exciting and fulfilling experience to >>> use it and make it better. >>> Don' take anything by the letter , be free to openly (and publicly!) >>> collaborate with others and everything you do will be important. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> openindiana-discuss mailing list >>> openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org >>> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> openindiana-discuss mailing list >> openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss