Hi So after the weekend and some more clarification I'd say I can confirm Alasdair here As I understood:
- iCore will be fully working OS, not just a struct, Nexenta might input and support it as much as it serves them for building their appliance OS with it - iCore will not be using Debian-sourced packages, it's about converting IPS to DEB (there is an ips-to-deb tool from Nexenta) - StormOS allways used package from Debian, and will re-introduce a preference over GNU tools where it doesn't break compatibility with illumos As iCore will focus more on the building a core OS out of OI's IPS collection, a portion of current NCP users might not see their needs covered by this OS distribution. So basically current NCP users for whom the community apliance OS isn't what they are looking for will have a choice to make once iCore is ready: - Switch to iCore for those who want to have a user experience like OI and the possibility to have an eased access the collection of packages already maintained by the OpenIndiana Project - Switch to StormOS for those who want a more Debian-like user experience and and eased access to the collection of packages already maintained by the Debian Project As such at StormOS there is a belief that the effort for packaging the illumos source into DPKG has not to be duplicated there because at least the structure of the packages may be shared between those 2 distributions. I'm looking forwards to see iCore become available and I hope Nexenta will do it's best to make a good transition possible for existing users of NCP. In the end this transition can be a win-win situation for all of us as wrote Alasdair. Regards, Mathieu ------------------------------------------- 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
