<div dir="ltr">Hi GB,<div><br></div><div style>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.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I'd strongly recommend looking at SmartOS or OmniOS. SmartOS is developed commercially by Joyent, a large cloud computing provider in the US. OmniOS is also developed commercially by OmniTI, a fairly large IT services company. SmartOS may make a good choice as you're from a BSD background, it uses pkgsrc for packages.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>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 due to the size of the project.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Regards,</div><div style><br></div><div style>Alasdair</div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Magnus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:magnus@yonderway.com" target="_blank">magnus@yonderway.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On Apr 14, 2013, at 10:51 AM, G B wrote:<br>
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> OI's last release was Oct 2012, so my question is when is the next release (151a8) scheduled to be released?<br>
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</div>If you're coming from OpenBSD, this shouldn't be at all alarming.<br>
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