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New OpenIndiana OS Supports USB 3.0, GTK+ 3.0, GNOME 3

posted by martyb on Tuesday May 09 2017, @10:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the three++ dept.

butthurt writes:

The OpenIndiana wiki announces the operating system's Hipster 2017.04 snapshot, which supports USB 3.0 and includes

[...] GTK3 applications. Several Gnome 2 applications, which don't have Mate analogs, were updated to Gnome 3 versions.

OpenIndiana is based on Illumos, which is in turn based on OpenSolaris, the open source version of Solaris.

Does anyone still use Solaris these days?

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  • (Score: 1) by marknmel on Wednesday May 10 2017, @02:56AM (1 child)

    by marknmel (1243) on Wednesday May 10 2017, @02:56AM (#507254) Homepage

    I have for years. It's a hard habit to break. I'm a bit of a ZFS junkie, since no other filesystem can offer the robustness. I have no desire to have corruption or loss of data. (I've been there with other filesystems - it sucks). Mirroring and RAID-Z actually works well and the speed is fantastic.

    Modern OpenIndiana based distros like SmartOS feature KVM, so you can run your favourite OS within the Solaris hypervisor.

    I like a distro called EON, which will boot / run a minimal Solaris on a USB stick, even on older gear.

    I've tried Ubuntu 16.04 with ZFS, and while it works, the OS installer when including the ZFS component is pretty obtuse...

    I don't have any practical experience with ZFS on *BSD.

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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Wednesday May 10 2017, @10:38AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Wednesday May 10 2017, @10:38AM (#507460) Journal
    ZFS is pretty actively maintained on FreeBSD and there are probably more large-scale deployments of FreeBSD with ZFS than OpenSolaris derivatives. Solaris Zones are still a little bit more polished than FreeBSD jails, though jails with VNET are now equivalent in terms of features. Solaris' role-based access control is much better integrated with the rest of the system than anything based on TrustedBSD / SELinux.
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