On September 8, 2017 4:04:11 PM GMT+02:00, Jim Klimov <jimkli...@cos.ru> wrote: >On September 8, 2017 3:03:58 PM GMT+02:00, Sylvain Leroux ><sylv...@yesik.it> wrote: >>Some comments inline: >> >> >>On 09/08/2017 02:53 PM, Theo Schlossnagle wrote: >>> The community has taken over... and releases are even on schedule. >>> >>> http://www.omniosce.org/ >>> >>> As far as developer activity, the OmniOS project has wider >>> participation and more activity now than it did prior to the >>transition. >>Thank you Theo: as I said above to Delroy A Blake, I wasn't aware of >>OmniOS "Community Edition". And this project certainly deserves being >>advertised. So if I may add my own little stone to the wall for that, >I >>will be glad to do it. >> >> >>> >>> If you're looking for an "It's dead Jim" article, you might not get >>> what you're looking for. >>As a matter of fact, I was looking to the exact opposite: I I used a >>lot >>Solaris in the 90s and early 2000s. And I was strongly disappointed to >>see what happened to that great OS years after years under the >umbrella >>of Oracle in the 2010s. >> >>My goal was to say Solaris was still alive -- and there are actively >>maintained projects and distributions that have taken up the >>succession. >> >>Regards, >>- Sylvain > >>My goal was to say Solaris was still alive -- and there are actively >>maintained projects and distributions that have taken up the >>succession. > >To that effect, OpenIndiana Hipster is another major general-purpose >illumos distribution that's being actively debeloped too, aimed at both >desktop and server, with a lot of software and GUI desktop pre-packaged >in its standard repository - in contrast with OmniOS that aims to be >the minimal foundation of an OS. > >Also there are many smaller projects, outlined on wiki.illumos.org as >well as unknown cores of storage, networking and other appliances. > >Hope this helps, >Jim >-- >Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Android
...And for clarification - I spoke of general purpose distros but ended on a note of the hearts of appliances. In that area of purpose-optimized illumos products there are of course some well-known larger bi-lateral opensource commercial players, such as Joyent (now part of Samsung) aimed at hypervisors and related storage needs, Delphix for databases, Nexenta for storage... Also, the OpenZFS community codebase is a stripped-down illumos source tree that grows with BSD, Linux and other contributions. Jim -- Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Android _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss