OpenIndiana 2020.10 

A *Sun* workstation is preferable when doing astronomy. Appreciate the channel and the style of presentation.

Just a short note NeWS was the name of the Sun Microsystems replacement for X-WIndows, it was a Display Postscript based and ended up as part of the Java runtime

Great video DJ, as always. I test this in the past for testing ZFS, and go back in time for Solaris :) Well done indeed.

I have learned a great deal from your videos; thank you very much! But my background is in physics, and I do not understand even some of the simple C.S. architectures/constructions. Here, at time 27:40, it seemed to me that OpenIndiana (unix) is using a linux kernel (5.11, a kernel that will debut as stable in February). If this is the case, then how does this work (or is it trivial)?

I really enjoyed the history at the end about the hospital network. Thanks. :-)

DJWare, you are kind of a big deal. I appreciate the information from your videos. Also, humility that comes with age is a nice change.

I really loved the story at the end.

Nice story brings back memories. Especially about the the single mode to ether connection; also the mention of mighty SPARC5 (I love that box).

Love IT stories!

Thanks DJ, never heard of OpenIndiana before. Great story about the satellite communication system.

ZFS on the desktop. first hand experience Hi DJ Your reviews of zfs type systems (bsd, etc) intrigued me.I decided to evaluate the difference between zfs on the Ubuntu desktop, vis-a-vis Fedora btrfs. In my comparison I installed Ubuntu 2010 with zol. This week(18Jan2021, there was a slew of updates to zfs and other. I installed those and then began my evaluation. My default system is Fedora 33 with btrfs. Being a fresh installation onto a 120gig ssd, I wanted to be sure that I would not have issues with fstrim. I found the command to enable fstrim. From the web, it seems that the zfs fstrim knows when a block is discarded, and it then immediately clears it and restores it to the pool of available blocks. After first reboot, I initially had a bit of rough viewing. I attribute that to the filling up of the zfs cache. After a few revisits, ex, firefox, or the other tools (C, C++, git, make) that I use daily, either I got used to the extra few milliseconds that seemed to be intrinsic to zol. I do compare my zol work/use habits versus btrfs. For speed, btrfs wins hands down. But where zfs wins appears to be with recovery following a crash and diverse workloads. But, I as a desktop user, I cannot prove this last statement. I have long ago stopped evaluating versions of arch and the alternative arch distributions. I will continue to test the Ubuntu2010 with zol for a while. I do not see zfs as a long term desktop platform. My work pattern is develop software using Fedora, do the final compiles with SUSE Leap 15.2 (clang). This latter distro's version of clang produces an executable that is almost 20% smaller and somewhat faster in execution than the current two compilers common to both Fedora and ubuntu (gcc 10.2) and clang 10.x I do enjoy your presentations. By the way, I like the earlier video introduction. Its your branding. Leslie from Montreal FYI & PS. I am an octogenerian.

There are a few of problems with OpenIndiana. (1) ZFS requires 4GB of RAM just for itself. This means you need at least 8GB for a desktop and 16GB if you really want it to work. (2) There are no wifi drivers at all. This means you cannot use it on a laptop. (3) Many of the standard desktop apps like Firefox don't work right. I assume this is because they only test it as a server. (4) If you try to tell the developers about these problems, they don't listen.

I used openindian a few years back was really hardcore into it I also use to use opensolaris back in the sun microsystem days love this system its a shame that oracle murder it.

notice you have 133% zoom with ur browser settings if u look near the link says 133%

Could you please review DilOS and DysonOS? Very interesting that they try to combine Unix-like kernel with GNU

good ol' open Solaris :)

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Who’s roger stallman?

Have you done, or thought of doing, a history video about your experience with CTOS and Convergent / Burroughs hardware? I think you had seen this channel: ru-vid.comvideos - if not, you might like it. Thanks. :)

I’m surprised OpenIndiana is still a thing.