For what it's worth: I use a Mac on a laptop, OpenIndiana 147 on my ThinkPad and OpenIndiana 151 on a desktop.
I've kept my thinkpad laptop on for weeks at a time. I've kept my desktop (when it was running OI 147) on for _over a year_. Both of those machines have 4GB of RAM. The desktop has an Core 2 Duo and the laptop has an intel i3. My macbook has an intel i7 and 4GB of RAM. I've had to reboot my macbook at _least_ once every 2 days. If it is running for 3 days it begins to swap like crazy and the spinning disk of doom appears. If Mac OS X, the _premiere_ desktop OS, can have this kind of instability (which is what it is), then I think OI is ahead of the curve as far as stability goes. Definitely trailing in user experience and aesthetics, but really, who cares? Do you want a show-horse or a work-horse? Just my 2 cents. On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Francois Dion <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> ken mays wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> 1. Is the latest JDS build something wanted by OI users and developers? >>> >>> This was one of the issues brought up, yet are we looking for a build of >>> the most latest bits? This was done a few months ago for a build kit ISO so >>> the work can transfer over. >>> >>> This way oi developers and users can test and review the latest JDS build >>> and msy help redolve some issues in modernization of the distro as mentioned >>> elsewhere. >> >> >> Although me too I'm one of those dinosaurs ... >> >> My needs are just a OS stable enough to run on a infrastructure server. >> >> Although I understand people wanting a full operational desktop environment, >> I don't care too much. For me (but it's just a personnal opinion), I want a >> openindiana environment just to be able to have a multi-windowing system (in >> fact many terminals on the console). >> >> For the moment, I work on two workstations, one running an old version of >> Solaris and the other running Linux (a laptop), but I surely can switch one >> of them to OpenIndiana. >> >> All this to say that, IMHO, it's important to release, as soon as possible, >> a stable "server version". A stable desktop version may be released later. >> >> It's not a problem for me to add another "desktop based workstation" to work >> on and test. >> >> Regards, >> >> >> José-Marcio > > Not sure if anybody noticed, but OI 151 was released 1 year ago. Been > running OI 151 as my primary desktop for 365 days. The definition of > stable is relative, I'd say... > > Francois > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
