[OmniOS-discuss] Status of the OmniOS project

[Jim Klimov]

On September 8, 2017 3:03:58 PM GMT+02:00, Sylvain Leroux <sylvain at 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
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