Hi Karthik, This is actually really interesting. I used to be a huge fan of Gentoo back in the days; drobbins FTW :) After I switched to enterprise Linux distros I kept portage prefix on my OS X for a long time. I have to say that for a developer/unix admin, portage is a great package manager on a workstation. It is good to hear that Gentoo Prefix works in illumos.
Daniel > On 30 Jul 2017, at 20:30, karthik <longm...@rediffmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Daniel > > Yes one can use other illumos distros which are more suitable for desktops. I > use one of them: XStreamOS. I regularly use Xfce,WindowMaker and KDE 3.5 on > my /opt/local on XStreamOS. SmartOS is a hypervisor,its best used that way. I > have successfully manually bootstrapped upto stage 3 of gentoo prefix on it > using the instructions in the below link: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix/Manual_Bootstrap > <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix/Manual_Bootstrap> > > Why gentoo prefix ? This is another source of packages for my desktop, > including things like KDE Plasma 5 desktop, which is not present in pkgsrc > stable(Its only present in wip, which is an unstable branch). > > The native IPS package set of XStreamOS provides me with > Firefox,LibreOffice,Wine,VLC and other essential applications,so I dont miss > these in pkgsrc. > > Cheers > Karthik > > From: "Daniel Kontsek" <dan...@kontsek.sk <mailto:dan...@kontsek.sk>> > Sent: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 13:17:59 > To: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org > <mailto:smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org> > Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] [smartos-discuss] AMD Ryzen 7 Support > > Hello, > > technically it is not a problem to install Xorg + some desktop environment on > SmartOS (in the global zone). > > We have a SmartOS-based compute node with /opt/local pkgsrc in place (the OS > can be optionally installed on hard drive) [1]. We have successfully > installed and used a minimal fluxbox, icewm and xfce4 desktop environments. > However, the quantity and quality of graphical applications in smartos’ > pkgsrc is probably low. For example you can install firefox but the binary > won’t start. > > To use fluxbox you can just do: > $ pkgin install modular-xorg-server xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse > xf86-video-vesa xinit xterm fluxbox > $ cat > ~/.xinitrc << EOF > #!/usr/bin/bash > fluxbox > EOF > $ startx > > Another cool thing you can do is to create a Linux (K)VM with graphical > environment and all your favourite apps on your SmartOS host. Then enable > remote X11 connections [2] in the Linux guest and on SmartOS run a X11 > client: /opt/local/bin/Xorg -query $DESKTOP_IP :1 > It is not an ideal desktop (e.g. you want have access to USB ports in the > host), but I can imagine that for doing development in Eclipse it would work. > A CentOS 7 image with Gnome is available here: > https://images.erigones.org/appliances/contrib-centos7-desktop/ > <https://images.erigones.org/appliances/contrib-centos7-desktop/==> > (KVM will not work on AMD) > > But there are definitely other illumos distributions, which are more suitable > for desktops. > > Daniel > > [1] https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Installing pkgin > <https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Installing+pkgin==> > [2] > https://github.com/erigones/esdc-factory/blob/master/ansible/roles/contrib-centos7-desktop/tasks/main.yml#L57 > > <https://github.com/erigones/esdc-factory/blob/master/ansible/roles/contrib-centos7-desktop/tasks/main.yml#L57==> > > > On 27 Jul 2017, at 20:27, a b <tripivc...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Can SmartOS be used at all as a workstation for web app > >> development,say for java/php development with Eclipse? AFAIK we > >> can use it as a live image booted off CD/USB with everything in > >> memory, except for /opt . This is akin to a liveCD of linux like > >> Knoppix. I do some of my personal web development on illumos but > >> I use XStreamOS which has a desktop version. So for XStreamOS, > >> apart from the native IPS package set, I have options of Joyent's > >> pkgsrc,OpenCSW or gentoo prefix as package sets. > > > > Unfortunately not, as SmartOS is a hypervisor most similar to > > VMware ESXi. > > > > What you could do is run a joyent-branded zone inside of SmartOS > > with X libraries and one of the X window managers, but you'd need > > an X server to bring the display back to, defeating the purpose > > of running SmartOS as a desktop, since you'd need another desktop > > to do that. > > > > You can of course run a web server with PHP and do your > > development on SmartOS in vi(1) or vim(1), or bring an integrated > > development environment's display over to your X server (your > > desktop). > > > > SmartOS is a cloud hypervisor for running servers. It's purposely > > designed to do that, and do it well. It's not a desktop operating > > system. > > -- > > Empathy is still a core engineering value. > > > > > > > http://www.listbox.com <http://www.listbox.com==/> > smartos-discuss | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25781774-03b23c43> | > Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com/>
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