On November 7, 2017 3:15:02 PM GMT+01:00, Lonnie Cumberland <lon...@outstep.com> wrote: >Thanks All for the nice welcome and I look forward to testing out OI as >well as trying to contribute a bit along the way during the course of >my >projects. > >I actually, just tried to boot the OI (Hipster) live iso on an 64-bit >AMD >test machine that I have been running Ubuntu 16.04 and although it does >boot up reasonably well, but I found that it does not recognize my >network >cards "Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet" and "Broadcom Limited >BCM43228 802.11 a/b/g/n" wireless. Actually, it seems to see them in >the >device list, but it does not activate them so perhaps I need some >drivers >if they are available. > >Cheers, >Lonnie > >On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Nikola M <minik...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 11/ 7/17 12:26 PM, openbabel wrote: >> >>> Greetings All, >>> >>> I would like to add that if you have a particular interest in >helping the >>> desktop environment advance we would welcome your imput. >>> >>> Robert Jones >>> >> >> Just to add.. >> ...and would also welcome posting answer to messages, below quotes :) >> >> >> >> >>> >>> On 07/11/2017 07:53, Nikola M wrote: >>> >>>> On 11/ 7/17 01:34 AM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: >>>> >>>>> Greetings All, >>>>> >>>>> I have used many operating systems over the years and lately have >been >>>>> using Windows (all flavors) as well as Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, >Gentoo, >>>>> etc...) bu mostly have been using Ubuntu 16.04 as my desktop for >some >>>>> time >>>>> now. >>>>> >>>>> Currently, I am gearing up to do a couple of projects which have >the >>>>> Illumos base which are in the SmartOS arena, but it made me start >to >>>>> wonder >>>>> if I should also consider loading up OpenIndiana Hipster as my >desktop >>>>> so >>>>> that I can become more familiar with it as it seems to have many >>>>> similarities as SmartOS and wanted to get the opinion of the OI >>>>> community >>>>> as to what they thought about it as a day-to-day OS? >>>>> >>>>> Mostly just exploring the possibility of nuking Ubuntu in favor of >>>>> installing OI for a while to see how it runs. >>>>> >>>>> Any comments, experiences, or suggestions would be greatly >appreciated. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Firstly , Openindiana is the distribution name because /hipster >>>> (lowercase) is not OS/distribution name, but a repository name. >>>> I welcome you to illumos distributions, Unix-derived family. (It is >>>> truly derived from Unix and not just Unix-like) >>>> >>>> Openindiana is a server-oriented UK-hosted OS that have a desktop. >OI >>>> has 'snapshots' twice a year (not a releases per se, since they are >not >>>> supported to be updated as such like in Ubuntu) and in the meantime >there >>>> are contiuous updates of fresh and 'vanilla' illumos updates and >the effort >>>> of contributors in 'userland' source repository to make it better, >more bug >>>> free and add fundamental features, where Alexander Pyhalov is >standing out >>>> together with all other important contributors. >>>> >>>> Having a MATE desktop, Firefox ESR and LibreOffice (from SFE >>>> repository), Openindiana is enough for everyday use of internet >services >>>> and using Solaris zones (those might end up hosted in the illumos >based >>>> cloud), but it is sure that some device driver support might >lacking or >>>> trailing behind a bit. >>>> You can also bootstrap Joyent SmartOS userland and use it in the >window, >>>> using pkgsrc packages, separately installed, in the terminal >emulator and >>>> have it together with OI desktop experience. There are also Boot >>>> Envornments on top of ZFS that makes both testing and production >use more >>>> reliable and predictive experience etc. >>>> >>>> So you can count on frequent and inclusive experience, that would >demand >>>> of you to be more included in the development of the OI itself, not >only by >>>> posting bug reports or driver support requests, but it could also >allow you >>>> to be more directly involved (and more appreciated) then in some >other >>>> distributions you could. So it's both exciting and fulfilling >experience to >>>> use it and make it better. >>>> Don' take anything by the letter , be free to openly (and >publicly!) >>>> collaborate with others and everything you do will be important. >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> openindiana-discuss mailing list >>>> openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org >>>> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> openindiana-discuss mailing list >>> openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org >>> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> openindiana-discuss mailing list >> openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> >_______________________________________________ >openindiana-discuss mailing list >openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org >https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
For NIC - take a look if atge driver from http://freenicdrivers.la.cocan.jp/ helps? -- Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Android _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss