Anyone on /g/ tried OpenIndiana or any other Illumos derivatives?

Yeah, its okay.

>>55547856
Did you run it on a laptop or a desktop? Any hardware support issues?

Thinking of multi-booting a Core2 Mobile Precision I recently got my hands on with OI or straight Solaris, the latter was pretty okay on portables when I tried it except the wifi was really fucked up.

wish omnios/etc had the documentation and rigor of openbsd

>>55547956
Is there any real reason that you want OI or Solaris?

>>55548042
More of a hobby thing, I run SPARC gear at home and feel a lot more at home in a Solaris environment especially with stuff like service management. Plus it's kind of fun to mess around with new platforms, Solaris 10's also an easy way to get a fully working CDE setup out of the box.

>>55548221
CDE is too much fun.

OI feels off to me.

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I've heard good things about SmartOS.

>OpenSolaris kernel
>NetBSD pkgsrc for package management
>Has KVM support ported from Linux
>VMs run in their own zones

I wish it ran on SPARC, though.

>>55548268
Now I have the urge to play with it in a VM, I guess it will take a while for the new hard drive caddy to ship over here anyway.

>>55548581
That does sound pretty cool, if only.

>>55547852
Been running it for 2 weeks on my Commodore 64, Theres are few bugs but it's pretty reliable.

>>55548221
I cannot begin to express how much I identify with this.