On this note, does anyone use FreeBSD/PC-BSD as a desktop? Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 4 jun 2015 11:00 skrev "Jonathan Adams" <t12nsloo...@gmail.com>:
> Just a note to say that I have stopped using OI on the desktop, and have > moved to the "backup" system of Ubuntu on the laptop. > > OI Hipster no longer worked well with Firefox provided on the Mozilla > website (every time a dialog box appeared there was a 50% chance it would > crash, and a 100% chance if the mouse cursor went near it), and the version > 24 in the repository didn't run flash at all, so I couldn't use the > Enterprise Manager from Oracle. I got around this using Martin Bochnig's > version for which I was very grateful. > > The Mozilla provided Thunderbird suffered the same issues as Mozilla > provided Firefox, dialog boxes kill it (file attachment to emails was an > instant death, "open with" the same) and the OS provided Thunderbird core > dumped without starting. I could get around the file attachment by > dragging and dropping from the file explorer onto the message, I could live > with the "open with" by letting it use the default application (which > didn't work) then picking the files up from /tmp in the correct > application. > > The Adobe Reader 9.3 core dumped instantly. I know that evince works well > as a PDF viewer, but since I work with Electronically signed documents; > Adobe is the only graphical application that deals with these correctly. I > worked around it by not checking any signing of the document. > > There is no longer a working Intel graphics driver, although I could get > around this by removing the driver and running in vesa with the > 915resolution program. > > I started to play with making the ubuntu partition work better with our > network and settings, getting sccs, autofs, openldap relication, etc. etc. > working, and in the process of mounting my zfs root (to access the /etc > directory of OI) I managed to stop a working BE from booting, meaning that > I was forced to use a BE after the upgrades that broke all of the above. > > Consequently, Ubuntu died on my laptop during an system upgrade where it > decided to uninstall the Intel graphics and disk drivers (would have been a > serious win for beadm btw) and rather than trash the computer and all the > settings I bought a new internal drive to copy all of my files. > > My laptop was dual boot on an 80Gb harddisk. I bought a new 1TB harddisk > (was wondering about SSD, but felt that if I wanted to run Illumos I'd be > better with spinning rust because of TRIM) ... I thought about the issues > as stated above ... and I installed just Ubuntu on it. > > I feel a little guilty about it, like cheating on your first love, but I > don't feel guilty about the 25 second boot times (as opposed to 5 mins) or > the fact that I can run programs without them crashing. It also allows me > access to more updated versions of software, and versions not available on > Solaris (chromium, etc) > > I'm still keeping OI on the servers, ZFS root FS, Virtual network > interfaces and Zones are brilliant, and no OS can compete, but I have > decided to give up on the desktop. > > Thanks for reading this. > > Jon > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss