Firefox makes OI unusable with less than 4 GB of RAM. Surely a well crafted
miniroot will comfortably fit in that space with enough RAM left to run any of
the programs.
I'm trapped in a car and medical offices all day. But I've got all the Solaris
u9 manuals on an iPad. Can't stand to read while driving, but it's fine for the
waiting room.
Reg
On Thursday, March 4, 2021, 11:04:19 AM CST, Chris <oi...@sunos.info>
wrote:
On 2021-03-04 08:45, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Thursday, March 4, 2021 11:18 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.trib...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Both OmniOS and Tribblix don't have this failure mode as they don't have
>> the
>> split boot. We just get the bootloader to slurp the entire OS into memory.
>> It's
>> the sort of trick that isn't really practical for the GUI boot, though.
>>
>
> Uhm, SquashFS anyone? We are a desktop system so we should use a desktop
> technology. Why don't change for the superior and proved solution? And as I
> saw
> they even used SquashFS for cli only Linux without any problems. Or it's NIH
> syndrome? Or just hate Linux? Or we must adhere to the tradition of
> OpenSolaris
> and not allowed to change anything? Otherwise we will become less Solarish!
> Isn't
> it?
It's not so much the space on media that's the problem, as the space in RAM
that
poses the restrictions. SquashFS is only small when it's compressed on media.
--Chris
>
> BTW, you didn't answered me about how to do full screen with Tribblix on
> VirtualBox, Peter. Looking forward to you.
>
--
~10yrs a FreeBSD maintainer of ~160 ports
~40yrs of UNIX
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