Re: [oi-dev] State of development

2013-04-15 Thread Alasdair Lumsden
Strong leadership and a very very large investment in man-hours. The problem with OI is the build and assembly of it, i.e. the "release engineering". It's very difficult and very tedious as-is. Nobody wants to do it. Well, almost nobody - Jon Tibble has taken this on, but given the amount of work

Re: [oi-dev] State of development

2013-04-15 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-04-15 20:56, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: Alasdair Lumsden wrote: OpenIndiana was started as an open source community developed distro similar to Debian, but due to a lack of interest there are only a few developers working on it part time, so updates are slow, and limited in scope

Re: [oi-dev] State of development

2013-04-15 Thread Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz
Alasdair Lumsden wrote: Hi GB, If you're looking to move to a new OpenSolaris derived distro (i.e. based on illumos, which is where all the kernel/core userland development takes place across all distros) then there are many choices besides OpenIndiana. I'd strongly recommend looking at Smart

Re: [oi-dev] State of development

2013-04-15 Thread Ken Gunderson
At Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:35 -0400, Magnus wrote: > > October 2012 was six months ago. Complaining that this was how long we've had > to wait since the last oi release is directly relevant to OP's familiarity > with OpenBSD. Please try to gain deeper understanding of what you're > criticizing b