hello! i am looking to try out illumos on desktop and am currently looking for a good distribution. which one would you guys recommend? i've heard of openindiana and it seems to be pretty good but i can't get it to boot off of usb and i've heard the ips packaging format is hell

i am familiar with linux and have dabbled in freebsd also

anyone here?

tap tap ... is this thing on yet?

kantraa, not sure how much of what I typed got out.

huh?

all i see is "tap tap ... is this thing on yet?"

did you send something else?

I updated my firewall and saw your question at the same time.

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anyway, what I was trying to say was there are multiple distros, each one emphasizes different things.

OmniOS, for example, tends to focus on zones and bhyve and such.

but you can use any of them for 'general purpose' things.

$job[1] uses OmniOS for NFS & SMB/CIFS file services backed by ZFS.

how hard is it to install and set up X on Tribblix?

(We completely ignore the zones stuff.)

that would be a good question for ptrbble but, like most people here, he's probably off enjoying his Friday evening/Saturday.

This isn't a great time to expect people to be hanging out here :)

fair

I'm only here because I noticed there was activity in the channel while I was updating my firewall.

and I'm about to step away now that it is back online.

what's the best time to be here?

work days in Europe/US seem to have the most coverage but it's hard to say specifically.

this is a very global channel.

thanks!

its like 4am for me because ive been trying to boot openindiana since 2am lol

i think 1am actually

Looks like I need to restart my IRC proxy so I'm going to vanish again, brb.

and now that I'm back.. I'm going back to not-computering for the evening.

have a nice day!

im going to bed

Hope to see you here Monday. :)

sleep well.

wow i did not realisze illumos had such a huge irc group of people

clos, never moved away :P once you know it.. (see illumos distros and a few cloud platforms.. )

if i installed tribblix would i be able to run pre-11 solaris packages on it?

I’m happy illumos comunity didnt move to discord 😅

IRC has it’s issues but it works well for what it is

discord is way easier to use but also has a slew of other problems

if i installed tribblix would i be able to run pre-11 solaris packages on it? i honestly just wanna run IE for UNIX

kantraa: while backwards compat is usually pretty good I'm not sure it goes that far back. Probably best to just try and see how it goes

how do I use the classic vi/ex in the repo here - github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/tree/master/usr/src/cmd/vi

did somebody know if svccfg is able to addpg for dependent (not dependency) to a smf service? If I use addpg dependent is creats a <property_group> not a <dependent> entry to the service, which than isn't working as expected :)

makr: Goes in a combo of /usr/xpg4/bin/ and /usr/has/bin/

thanks rmustacc

kantraa: you should be able to run applications from Solaris 10 or earlier without too many problems.

Actually, going further back can be easier in terms of compatibility, simply because in earlier releases there was less to be compatible with

Although for things like old web browsers, finding a website that's compatible with a really old browser is likely to be a bit of a problem

drscream: you might be able to create a profile that you can apply to create the relationship

I ran a 2010 copy of Opera recently and, as you might expect, it couldn't connect to most sites using https

Although it didn't do that bad a job rendering the few it could reach

Wasn't IE for Solaris only available for SPARC, though?

that's my recollection

IIRC, it would only use a single core as well because solaris couldn't 'properly' do SMP (according to MS).. or something silly like that

ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped

That's the installer, at any rate.

[illumos-gate] 14736 zfs: Improve sorted scan memory accounting -- Alexander Motin <mav⊙Fo>

jbk: so you're idea would be to create a profile which reflect the dependent based on the services which need to be started? so list both services in the profile?

drscream: Yes you can basically list any service in the profile and just make targetted adjustments

jclulow have you seen (on vbox) Jul 6 16:33:51 oi-server usba: [ID 691482 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci8086,1e31@c (xhci0): Connecting device on port 1 failed

I have not! I try to avoid virtualbox, it's kind of a mess

:)

jclulow / jbk that works, thanks a lot :)

awesome!