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I think that for the lulz one day, I'll post a concept of an "Illumos/BSD Phone" on XDA-Developers or some other mobile development forum, and ask for feedback.

...The laughter will echo throughout the world.
Let 'em laugh, my friend. Life is too short to not share cool ideas and work on cool stuff. If you think it's worth doing, do it. And not every idea has to be a 100 million unit idea. There's room for open source hardware stuff, hobbyist stuff etc. Check out the Firefox phones. They may sell a few units, but if they make the folks that use them happy, great!

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Haha, I suppose you're right, SGIFanatic.
I just installed it 3 days ago because I feel that linux is too unreliable. Locks up too often. When you backspace too many times on terminal, the pc-speaker beeps and the system crashes. Happens very often. Also happens under gedit. ( maybe it's just pc-speaker-beep drivers for my chipset? )

I'm kind-of off-put by the whole 'hipsterification' of unix, and share sentiments with hamei. But I relaly like the idea and think it's 'cool', regardless.

Also It would be nice if install scripts that worked under solaris 10 still worked the same way in openindiana...
And they had better documentation...........
surrealdeal wrote: And they had better documentation...........

it's a niche product and free. i guess you can't have it all :P
foetz wrote:
surrealdeal wrote: And they had better documentation...........

it's a niche product and free. i guess you can't have it all :P

Are you at all involved with oi development?
surrealdeal wrote: Are you at all involved with oi development?

no, i rarely used one of the distributions but it was quite nice how close it comes to the "real" solaris :-)
My only gripe with Illumos is the lack of video buffer support especially some of the XVR series, but hopefully some bright spark will figure it out and provide an actual patch or package :)
MAYA, nut-
:Octane2: :Octane2: Octane 2 R14k 600 V12 4GB, Octane2 R14K 600 V10 1GB ,
:Onyx2: :Onyx2: Onyx2 IR3 4GB Quad R14K 500 DIVO, Onyx2 IR Quad R12K 400 2GB,
:Indigo2: SGI Indigo 2 R8K75 TEAL Extreme 256MB,
:Indigo2IMP: SGI Indigo 2 R10K 195 Solid Impact 256MB, MAX Impact Pending
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Apple G5 Quad, NV Quadro 4500 + 7800GT, 12GB RAM
Sun Blade 1000 Dual 900 XVR 1000 4GB
Sun Blade 2000 Dual 1200 XVR 1200 8GB
screw it OpenBSD is the next viable option
MAYA, nut-
:Octane2: :Octane2: Octane 2 R14k 600 V12 4GB, Octane2 R14K 600 V10 1GB ,
:Onyx2: :Onyx2: Onyx2 IR3 4GB Quad R14K 500 DIVO, Onyx2 IR Quad R12K 400 2GB,
:Indigo2: SGI Indigo 2 R8K75 TEAL Extreme 256MB,
:Indigo2IMP: SGI Indigo 2 R10K 195 Solid Impact 256MB, MAX Impact Pending
,
Apple G5 Quad, NV Quadro 4500 + 7800GT, 12GB RAM
Sun Blade 1000 Dual 900 XVR 1000 4GB
Sun Blade 2000 Dual 1200 XVR 1200 8GB
OpenBSD has been, in my experience, the free Unix that least makes me want to kill myself.
Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
Synthesizers: Roland JX-10/MT-32/D-10, Oberheim Matrix-6, Yamaha DX7/FB-01, Korg MS-20 Mini, Ensoniq Mirage/SQ-80, Sequential Circuits Prophet-600, Hohner String Performer

"'Legacy code' often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling." - Bjarne Stroustrup
commodorejohn wrote: OpenBSD has been, in my experience, the free Unix that least makes me want to kill myself.
This is simply because we have become quite good at making our users want to kill our own targets rather than themselves :lol:
:Indigo: R4000 :Indigo: R4000 :Indigo: R4000 :Indigo2: R4400 :Indigo2IMP: R4400 :Indigo2: R8000 :Indigo2IMP: R10000 :Indy: R4000PC :Indy: R4000SC :Indy: R4600 :Indy: R5000SC :O2: R5000 :O2: RM7000 :Octane: 2xR10000 :Octane: R12000 :O200: 2xR12000 :O200: - :O200: 2x2xR10000 :Fuel: R16000 :O3x0: 4xR16000 :A350:
among more than 150 machines : Apollo, Data General, Digital, HP, IBM, MIPS before SGI , Motorola, NeXT, SGI, Solbourne, Sun...
commodorejohn wrote: OpenBSD has been, in my experience, the free Unix that least makes me want to kill myself.


And people say you're too sparing with praise.
smit happens.

:Fuel: bigred , 800MHz R16K, 4GB RAM, V12, 6.5.30
:Indy: indy , 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
:Indigo2IMP: purplehaze , R10000, Solid IMPACT
probably posted from Image bruce , Quad 2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP, 16GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11
plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * HP C8000 * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...