‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Thursday, March 4, 2021 11:41 PM, Andreas Wacknitz <a.wackn...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 04.03.21 um 17:30 schrieb cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss: > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On Thursday, March 4, 2021 10:43 PM, Reginald Beardsley via > > openindiana-discuss openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org wrote: > > > > > Unfortunately, this is another example of poor QC of the release ISO > > > image. How hard is it to verify that all the libraries needed in single > > > user mode are actually installed? A shell script to do that should be an > > > integral part of the process for building an ISO image. > > > > Unrelated but it's an interesting piece of information. Illumos still > > depends on proprietary closed source tools from the Sun's era to build > > itself. Check the documents about how to build illumos-gate, it's still > > needs onbld. > > Volunteers are welcome to change that! > Open Indiana is an open source OS without any commercial support. We are > only a very few (read < 10) people actively maintaining it. We all have > our day jobs, typically > unrelated to OI or illumos (exceptions exist). The common basis, > illumos, is of course mostly developed by companies. But they are mostly > focused on doing things for > their customers. Desktop systems are not being used there, as far as I know. > > So, instead of telling us what we should fix for you, you should start > fixing things for yourself. That's what we are doing for us and that's > how community projects should work. > Our repositories are all openly accessible. We also have some > documentation on how to get started. So you can start immediately. > And if your are not able to install OI on your bare metal you can run it > on most hypervisors, eg. I am running one "build machine" on Proxmox. > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss I will stop being naysayer and let you guys focus on the problem itself. Bye. _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
