[oi-dev] OpenIndiana and illumos

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, November 18, 2010 10:45 AM, BM wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Garrett D'Amore<garrett at nexenta.com>  wrote:
>> And to those of you running OI "in production", you're nuts.  OI has had
>> exactly "one" release (of dubious quality), and has a sum total of a
>> half dozen engineers behind it; and I'm not sure all of them are
>> actually software engineers and not just integrators.  I sure as heck
>> don't advocate illumos for production use *yet*, even though my own
>> desktop runs it.  (Although I'm working hard to get it into a condition
>> when I will be happy to do so.)
>
> 1. http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Frequently+Asked+Questions#FrequentlyAskedQuestions-WhatistherelationshipbetweenOpenIndianaandIllumos%3F
>
> 2. http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Available+IPS+Repositories — there
> is a placeholder for http://pkg.openindiana.org/illumos
>
> As of points are totally valid and OI should move to Illumos, yet
> nobody went around to insult people called them "nuts" or "fools" (on
> IRC), who made a mistake to use that super-buggy Nexenta, that was
> constantly losing dependencies, screwing up APT and is based on a
> prehistoric Debian repos. Maybe we also should join nexenta-dev@ and
> yapping all the users are morons that using it, what you think? And
> because of that never happend, Anil could do a great job, trying to
> fix that stuff step by step.

It ain't Debian repos. Please don't drag Debian into this. It is the 
crap from Ubuntu.


>
> If I were you, I would apologize for this.
>
> P.S. I don't really give a hoot about 151a or "too little / too late",
> because some of our machines are running snv_127 and older, some of
> them has even Solaris 8, which is old enough to get another "nut"
> award. :-(
>

We don't give a hoot so long as we have a stable box and ZFS.