On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Tim Mooney wrote:
> In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] newbie questions, Lev said (at
> 10:51pm...:
>
>> Ok, New (not even a) user here, please be gentle.
>>
>> So I'm considering installing oi as my primary OS. Before I do I have a
>> few
>> questions.
>>
>> 1.
In message <20160916235750.36aa0e85@jive>, Lev writes:
>In the other hand, I feel this is lack of knowledge as a handicap, and if I
>had time, I'd be doing ZFS studies. I just don't want to mess with my live
>system. There is full support in FreeBSD, so I could make it running on my
>server.
The O
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 17:46:29 -0400
Daniel Kjar wrote:
> ZFS is so amazingly good. Every once in a while I google windows 10
> zfs just incase
Yes, I know. I read lot of good about it. I even visited FOSSDEM and attended
the ZFS sessions. I just don't have the knowledge.
In the other hand,
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2016, Lev wrote:
>>
>>
3. Is there any way to install the OS without ZFS?
>>>
>>> Yes. But not via installer and not recomended. Why no ZFS if I may
>>> ask? It's one of the main features of OI.
>>
>>
>> Lack of knowled
ZFS is so amazingly good. Every once in a while I google windows 10 zfs
just incase
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2016, Lev wrote:
>
>>
>> 3. Is there any way to install the OS without ZFS?
>>> Yes. But not via i
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016, Lev wrote:
3. Is there any way to install the OS without ZFS?
Yes. But not via installer and not recomended. Why no ZFS if I may
ask? It's one of the main features of OI.
Lack of knowledge? :-) I'm happy with just normal filesystems on the
disk. I know ZFS is extra super
On 16.09.2016 23:28, Lev wrote:
Ok. I'll go for XFCE, but I see that you have it.
We don't have packages for it. But Tribblix has. So it can be built from
source.
I use make, cmake, gvim, and codelite. I don't like those giant IDEs like
eclipse. I develop software for AVR MCUs and ARM in th
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 23:10:28 +0200
Till Wegmüller wrote:
> Welcome to the Community
>
>
>
> > 1. Is the whole system is package based? Like Linux, unlike
> > FreeBSD.
> Depends on what you mean package based. FreeBSD is AFAIK also package
> based as linux. They just have Ports as compiling
In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] newbie questions, Lev said (at 10:51pm...:
Ok, New (not even a) user here, please be gentle.
So I'm considering installing oi as my primary OS. Before I do I have a few
questions.
1. Is the whole system is package based? Like Linux, unlike FreeBSD.
Yes. O
Hey Lev
Welcome to the Community
1. Is the whole system is package based? Like Linux, unlike FreeBSD.
Depends on what you mean package based. FreeBSD is AFAIK also package
based as linux. They just have Ports as compiling source may not always
be what you want.
But yes we have a Package s
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Andrew Myers wrote:
> How difficult is packaging? Is OI looking for people to help? Is it perhaps
> some way I could get involved? I have some experience with rpmbuild - is
> there an Solaris equivalent?
Yes, we are looking for people. Start with:
http://wiki
I don't know how IPS actually works, but I can forward you to the
Wikipedia page for it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_Packaging_System
The first external link about the Image Packaging System for
OpenSolaris should be relevant to OpenIndiana as well. You can browse
through that until someone
: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 07:32:19 -0600
> > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
> > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newbie Questions - Installing various
> software
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Andrew Myers wrote:
> > > I guess I'm a "newbie
diana.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newbie Questions - Installing various
> software
>
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Andrew Myers wrote:
> > I guess I'm a "newbie" although I've been using various Linux distro's for
> > about 10 years.
On 04/07/2012 06:08 AM, Andrew Myers wrote:
downloading 11.0
fromftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/latest/contrib/solaris_pkgadd/. Is that
the best way to upgrade? Is 3.6.12 the most recent in the "official" repo?
It appears for the time being yes and also from here :
http
Thanks Jan. That's very helpful.
I'll try this all out tomorrow.
Best regards,
Andrew
> From: jso...@gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 07:32:19 -0600
> To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newbie Questions - Installing various
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Andrew Myers wrote:
> I guess I'm a "newbie" although I've been using various Linux distro's for
> about 10 years.
I'm a "newbie" to OI just like you, but I can answer some (not all) of
your questions.
> Firstly, I wanted to have a later version of Firefox insta
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