‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, March 5, 2021 10:14 AM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote:
> Two different builds labeled as "OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.10"? Please excuse > me, but my hair is on fire!!! > > This is INSANE!!!!! > > Dad was a NY PE, but we wound up in Arkansas so he could speculate on real > estate with a restaurant to tide us over. Despite Dad's sole qualification > for owning a restaurant being 6 weeks as mess officer in the Navy during WW > II, Mom made a go of it and did a cooking show on the CBS affiliate noon time > variety show in Little Rock for 9 years from about 1965 to 1974. She > outlasted 3 hosts. Dad could boil water for tea. > > The surest way to destroy a restaurant is to have several celebrity (at least > in their own minds) chefs who cook every dish differently! There are many > restaurants which serve horrible food, but it is absolutely consistent. If > they can keep going for 2-3 years they will build up a trade that likes it no > matter how bad it is. > > If OI puts out releases which are different, but identically labeled and > might or might not work, no one but a complete masochist will stick around! > The end result is the "developers" will be the only users. A rather sad > outcome. > > I have run OI since at least 151 and I think earlier as there was still a lot > of confusion with Nevada when I started. If anyone cares I shall let them > look through the mailing list. I don't care about when I started. > > I care about when I stop using OI. I'd like that to be when I die. But there > are some serious changes in release management procedures that need to be > made or I'm likely to stop by the end of the year. > > I am willing and able to do the work with a good track record doing it. > Building and distributing X11R4 and Motif 1.2 for anything and everything > from workstations to supercomputers is not for the faint of heart. There's a > good reason the O'Reilly imake manual has a snake on the cover! > > So let's get to doing it! If you make me do searches to try to figure out > what's going on, I shall simply wander off shaking my head. If you > communicate with me, I'll get it done to as high a standard as exists. I have > had a rule for most of my life of: "I'll do it to my standards unless yours > are better. Otherwise, I won't do it at all." And it I have to do it 3 times > to get it to that standard, I do it. And triple booting a laptop with > Windows, Linux and Solaris took 12! > > Reg > > On Thursday, March 4, 2021, 04:00:47 PM CST, russell > str...@willows7.myzen.co.uk wrote: > > Hi, > > This evening I updated to the latest Hipster release and as normal I > always create a new BE "pkg update -v --be-name oihipster-20210304" and > reported as "OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.10 Version illumos-f2db47a16a 64-bit" > After completing the update and rebooting, my desktop started with the > new OI and as normal Lightdm failed to start first time around but > unlike "OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.10 Version illumos-72973a2ec5 64-bit" > which takes between 3 and 12 reboots to start Lightdm, things started to > go downhill very fast. > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss I think you are misunderstood here. There is just one Hipster 20.10, but the Illumos version string different, isn't it? OI just ship an updated illumos-gate version. This doesn't make there is another Hipster 20.10 builds. BTW, Hipster 20.10 is just a name, it's rolling release anyway. BTW, why you consider using OI for your server from the beginning? Because you think it's the logical successor to OpenSolaris, a server with a GUI? Do you really need a GUI? Please don't give up on Illumos yet. There is OmniOS with a LTS version. There is also DilOS which seems to be LTS, too. _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
