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You mean that one needs to make a dataset mountpoint explicit at creation time?
Unless it is already defined elsewhere (like /home, by default, is per the automount service, but I screwed this one up) or you can live with losing it after an update, then one does not. Otherwise, this is what the OmniOS devs proposed to me on the IRC (unless I misunderstood a lot).
Example: If you use pkgsrc in /opt, you should probably have /opt mounted separately because the next OmniOS boot environment might not have it. (I admit I have not fully understood all of it just yet, but I'm working on that.)
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Originally Posted by priyadarshan_
I read there is a better AMD support. I am looking forward to test it on one of ours X399 motherboards with AMD threadripper.
I am still hoping that some day I will be able to afford a LispWorks license. It seems to be a pretty decent software. SBCL works flawlessly on OmniOS though, I was able to run one of my applications from FreeBSD without code modifications.
I have tested OI for a while, but it seems to me they are a bit different. OmniOS is more like FreeBSD or Arch, OpenIndiana more like Linux Mint. I would not like to mix repositories.
Regarding not being able to install MATE and other meta-packages via pkgsrc: that is actually a regression, as explained here, which will be fixed in 2018Q2, thanks to Jonathan Perkin at Joyent.
I was pleasantly suprised with how easy and smooth Awesome install went on OmniOS.
Xorg started the first time withouth a glitch. FreeBSD on same platform was not as agreeable.
I am looking forward to test MATE, Gnome, KDE and others on OmniOS.
OmniOS feels like a very promising foundation.
Last edited by priyadarshan_; 05-12-2018 at 06:59 AM.
Thank you for the link. It's nice to see that what I am doing is not entirely considered to be a weird thing. I would like to see more people considering to, at least, try any illumos. It needs publicity thanks to Oracle.
Also, yes, Jonathan Perkin is really doing great work. He gives me hope for illumos's future.
Somehow I missed this thread when it first came out. I'm moving away from desktop Linux and considering my options in BSD/Solaris land. Even the good Linux distros (Slackware, Gentoo) are starting to wear at me. They seem like a chaotic collection of parts, rather than a cohesive whole, unlike the BSDs and Solaris.
As such, I am currently testing OpenIndiana. So far, I like it.
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