G'day I've kept following what is today known as Nexenta Core Platform (and I'm using the commercial variant as well). As being someon rather young with a more linux-ish background I am more familiar with Debian's dpkg packaging system than IPS and that's what brought me initially to illumos.
Now that Nexenta is targetting the switch of their commercial offering to illumos they try re-rewrapping and -thinking what they want to do with their community editions and offerings.* Nexenta Core 3 seems to be rather a dead end - at least I don't expect Nexenta to allow a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' of their commercial OS: - Tons of backports - many hand-patched packages lagging behind the Ubuntu upstream which already is a lagging downstream of Debian - It's not based on illumos but on OpenSolaris (+ much backports from illumos) I don't think that the current NCP3 is making happy aspired contributor (the repos are tied to Nexenta) nor Nexenta (can't fullfill expectations since they have to focus on their commrecial distro). Some efforts in and outside of the company behind that distribution exist or have started (iCore). Maybe 'we' - those who are either makeing it, packaging additional stuff or wanna-bee contributors (myself...) - have now the opportunity to take new directions and think about what we expect it to be? He are some questions I'm throwing at you as input :-) - What are people involved in iCore planning yet with their baby? - What do 'we' expect from a illumos distro using dpkg/apt? - Who is using the dpkg packaging with OSol / illumos yet - get people on board you know!** - Do we want to use 'just' dpkg: Be closer to illumos or to be more GNU-ish? - How near / close do we want to be tied with Nexenta? vs. How much does Nexenta as company want to be involved / do their own? Personally I belive using a name containing "iFoo" anyway could create trademark issues with a certain company - I'd recommend reconsidering that choice. I'm tossing that now out of my mailbox - looking whether someone will respond reading on that list ;-) Regards Mathieu * I'm following ths process from the 'outside', Linda Kateley has asked for feedback on both Forums on nexenta(stor).org ** I was thinking about StormOS or maybe the guy operating apt.zpool.org and napp-it.org that can use NCP3 ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
