A boring week
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It's hot... i mean it's really HOT, at the moment the thermometer on my
desk reads 30 degrees Celsius and we only have 10:15 in the morning...
not to mention the humidity the rainfall of this morning brought. This 
weather is definitively not normal for germany.

It may be because of the heat, it may be because i have no really urgent
projects running, but this week was incredible boring. So boring in fact
that i installed OpenIndiana on my second workstation at work. OpenIndiana
is more or less a successor of OpenSolaris, and part of the Illumos family.
Being related to Solaris gave it a very special place in my heart from
the first time i learned about it. 

So, i downloaded the image file and tried to write it to an USB stick as 
you would do with any other common Unix / Linux distribution out there,
the image was successfully created but the first boot attempt failed. 
Ok... perhaps an issue with the TPM settings on my workstation i thought,
played around, disabled settings tried again, but to no avail. Next i 
thought perhaps something went wrong during the creation of the boot media,
so i grabbed another USB stick and wrote the image again. Same result.

After consulting Big G i found out that there are more people having issues
with the created boot media... unless it was created on a System running
Solaris or OpenIndiana... weird. Luckily, my workstation has a DVD drive,
so i downloaded the image for the optical disc, dusted off a blank DVD
i had in my desk and burned it. This turned out to be a success: The 
machine booted into the live-environment and i could test out everything
to make sure what was working and what not. As it turned out: Everything
was working fine, so i proceeded to install the system.

After about half an hour of installation everything was finished and i 
could reboot the machine. The next little roadblock came when i started
to install my standard toolset: I could not install any software! 
So, again after a consultation of our Google overlords i had my answer:
I had to run an update first (OpenIndiana is a rolling release distribution),
so after a "pkg update" (which took about an hour) i could finally install
everything i needed. After that i am now (after only two real workdays)
very happy with the system, everything runs fine, it is decent fast and 
"just works". The next thing i am planning to do is to dive into the
ZFS rabbit hole...