G'day I don't think other distributions are "balkanizing" OI as as long as they have another focus. SmartOS has one for sure, so does StormOS I'd say.
Technically illumian could (mostly) already exist today because ips-to-deb, the tool to achieve this conversion used by a illumian with OI packages is already available (ips2deb). But the community didn't pick up. Nexenta devs are running OI mostly now to hack on illumos (AFAIK), so the private branch could be rather stabilized OI for storage purpose. The source could be made available as required by the varying license - if someone wants to pick up, they can. For the patches that affect OI/userland they could be integrated into the community OI if they make sense. Currenty Nexentians are now much closer to UNIX/Solaris than Debian as they previosly were. I think illumian would increase confusion between all distributions of illumos that exist today and takes resources inside Nexenta by maintaining yet another OSS communty. - Nexenta already maintains 1 community with thier product, and focusing on less things could lower the overall burden. I don't want to torpedo a new idea but try to re-think at Nexenta about hte following question: Does Nexenta as a company see value by maintaining "OI+dpkg=illumian" in the open with a community? It currently seems the interest by a community into jumping illumian instead of OI is rather low because the difference is too small and there have been expressed som some fear about kind of OI balkanization. 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
