I don't know where you get that SmartOS is for light loads and OI is for heavy
loads, but on OI I can run DB2 while I can't on SmartOS because of a SUNW error.
________________________________
From: Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]>
To: OpenIndiana Developer mailing list <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [oi-dev] hipster
On Thu, 30 May 2013, G B wrote:
> I apologize for not following the 'hipster' thread more closely, but is
> 'hipster' intended to be 151a8,
> meaning that doing a standard `pkg image-update` from the default publisher
> will never get bumped to 151a8 or
> future releases?
>
> I did try once to update with hipster and has error/warnings galore scroll
> past and then failed to update.
> Is that going to be fixed? I applaud the efforts of those working on it, but
> with OI already on life
> support, hurdles in the road like this will only frustrate users more and
> cause them to abandon it
> altogether.
Maybe you should follow that thread more closely. After initial
reports of failures now there are many reports of complete success.
It is an on-going process.
Otherwise, I am also curious to see if 'hipster' becomes the next
formal 151a8 and perhaps leading to an official OI release.
> At first I thought there was hope with hipster, but then had those errors and
> have mostly decided at this
> point to use SmartOS for my web/mail servers. Although last night when I
> logged into 151a7 and did a little
> work I had a thought that perhaps I should just stay on OI because I like it,
> but then logged onto my SmartOS
> machine and wondered why should I keep using or wanting ot use OI?
If all you need is web and mail, then almost any distribution will do.
SmartOS and OI target completely different usage models (light/heavy),
although OI can support most functionalities offered by SmartOS.
Bob
--
Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
_______________________________________________
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
