On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:33:28PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Is there any distintions between <Subject>? Is everyone doing all three,
> parts of them, etc? A friend of mine here at work and I is trying to figure
> out what Illumos is actually trying to do, but we can't seem to get any
> good/real answers on the site (nor did I get any good one from igor in
> private conversation)...
Back in Sun, "Solaris", the end product, was comprised of several distinct
consolidations of source. This particular consolidation:
OS/Net --> OS and Networking. Kernel, system libraries, and system
commands.
Is what comprises "Illumos". To be fair, "Illumos" also contains OS/Net man
pages now too (where it didn't inside Sun).
> The site is even quite confusing, talking about a bunch of distributor
> 'makers' and then Nexenta in the mix (that basically only uses The Kernel
> (TM)) and then continues talking about the Illumos dist... Which doesn't
> seem to be a dist, but part of a dist that will be a dist... Well, you can
> see my confusion here... :)
As of this moment, there are two installable entities (Linux folks might call
them distros) of Illumos:
- OpenIndiana, which attempts to keep the look/feel/smell of
OpenSolaris, complete with IPS packaging. If you want to dink
around, I'd suggest starting with OI.
- SmartOS, a cloud-node/appliance/small-footprint install from
Joyent.
And there are two companies who make appliance code based on Illumos:
- NexentaStor, for storage appliances. Our current 3.x is actually
based on pre-Illumos OpenSolaris bits, but we're addressing that.
- I don't know the specific name, but Delphix creates space-efficient
database appliances based on Illumos code.
Is this enough to clear some of the confusion? Or am I adding to it. And if
I got anything wrong here, please chime in.
Dan
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