[OmniOS-discuss] Status of the OmniOS project

[Saso Kiselkov]

On 9/8/17 2:38 PM, Sylvain Leroux wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> After Oracle has laid off the core Solaris developers, I'm writing an
> article for https://itsfoss.com about the various
> OpenSolaris-based/Illumos-based distributions.
> 
> I've already heard about OmniOS previously and wanted to mention it as
> the de-facto Illumos server distribution.
> However while doing some researches, I found that article:
> 
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/25/oracle_free_solaris_project_stops/
> 
> Here is the headline:
> """
> Development of OmniOS – an Oracle-free open-source variant of Solaris –
> is being killed after five years of work.
> """
> 
> The author then reports several quotes from OmniTI chief executive
> Robert Treat to support that assertion.
> On the other hand, by what I saw on the mailing list the project _seems_
> still to be active.
> 
> 
> Could you give more informations about the current state of the project?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for your time,

While "OmniOS" is no longer being developed by OmniTI, its development
has been taken over by the community (at OmniTI's request, actually) and
can be found under http://www.omniosce.org with new releases still ongoing.

Cheers,
-- 
Saso

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