Oh Innovation the most intriguing of changes :) The most interesting things about innovation and illumos or solaris before that, is that it did not come from our project. Rather we did a marvelous engineering job on a idea that came from an university or a itch that happened in a company involved with the Project.
An example for the first one being zones and for the second one node.js. I think those sources are the best ones for innovation within the project. Me personally am working on a cloud stack with a concept of REALM's. Basicly you are not just running Vm's but you rather register a domain and get already a few services for that domain. Like a dns or for a more expensive REALM kerberos/ldap authentication. As I am also working with a lot of so called digital nomads ther will be some improvements/new things in Maschine synchronisation (settings/contacts...) and terminal services. I hope to at least make something as good as sunray. But maybe that plan will change. What are other people working on that could be innovative or scratch an itch? Is there things we others in the Project could do that would make illumos more attractive for those use cases? My two cents. Greetings Till On 13.09.2017 22:01, Peter Tribble wrote: > In my OpenSolaris t-shirt collection, I have one with the slogan: > > "Innovation happens everywhere" > > I'm not sure this is *entirely* true; Solaris 10 was a massive nexus > of innovation that has proliferated out to other operating systems > over the last decade. Frankly, there's not much else been happening > in systems development. > > From what I can see, between the cloying boredom of Linux monoculture > and the dead hand of POSIX "standardisation", systems have stagnated. > > Even in illumos, we're largely doing a bit of light gardening - a bit > of weeding here, a bit of pruning there, replanting the odd bush. But > no real landscaping is being done. > > Which begs the question - is systems innovation done and dusted? > > Or is there more to come? > > And if there is more, what sort of new features are wanted? > > At which point I open up the floor to anyone who wants to contribute. > > (Note: I'm not talking about a gaps analysis. We [illumos] need more > drivers, more applications ported. We already know that, and it's just > copying, not innovation. So there is an interesting subject there, but > if someone wants to follow that then please create a new thread.) > > Cheers, > > -- > -Peter Tribble > http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ > *illumos-discuss* | Archives > <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/discussions/T83f198c8597cf8e3-M120241295215f3f1fa5cb2c0> > | Powered by Topicbox <https://topicbox.com> ------------------------------------------ illumos-discuss Archives: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/discussions/T83f198c8597cf8e3-Mc5f90ebc6fb45755352dae56 Powered by Topicbox: https://topicbox.com
