Cue the music. Ta-da-da-daaaaa, da-da-daaaaaa. Can you hear it? Good. Here's a long, fairly thorough review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster, a UNIX-like operating system with the MATE desktop environment, tested as a virtual machine, covering initial setup problems, installation, partitioning, look & feel, package management, applications, multimedia support - HD video and MP3 playback, network support - Samba sharing and printing, Time Slider, hardware support, VMware Tools, stability, performance, customization, various problems, and more. You may like this. http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/openindiana-hipster.html Cheers, Mrk
Speaking of RedHat - its now free for home use. Red Hat says one can't use it on production machines which means springing for that paid production license. You can grab a developer's license for free and get the whole kit and kaboodle. Light years ahead? Not on my test KDE, which in the new 7.4 beta is still somehow stuck at 4.10 in the KDE Plasma 5 era. That's a review for another time. OpenIndiana, nice review but it begs the question of why one needs it. Haiku and BSD have made measurable progress since 2011. Judging from the state of things, OpenIndiana is the UNIX bastard child time forgot. Even Indiana Jones couldn't rescue it and as it turned Dedoimedeo had to do a lot of pimping to make it usable. Most folks are better off sticking with Linux because everything is already there - even with an outdated desktop.
Well, what's wrong with KDE 4? It isn't the shiniest, but it works well for something supposed for 10 years. And unfortunately for most UNIX systems, the desktop does not seem to be the future. Mrk
