[oi-dev] OpenIndiana and illumos

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, November 18, 2010 02:09 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 03:32 +0100, Jesus Cea wrote:
>> OI has provided hope for some of us. OI team already explicitly said
>> that the plan is to move to Illumos. Having "something" filling the gap
>> between OpenSolaris and a future Illumos based release is keeping people
>> interested in the technology instead of flying away in flocks.
>
> I understand that, although there have been releases since, and b147 is
> available today.  Plus there is SX11.  Continuing to burn cycles on b148
> that could have been better spent addressing the real future needs is
> what bugs me.  And more to the point, I'm being constrained from making
> improvements I need to (in illumos-gate) by lagging OI.  And most
> grievously, it is OI's pseudo-compatibility goals with Oracle's releases
> (and now with its own prior releases) that create some of the biggest
> handicaps.

What constraints are you having?


>
>>
>> So, OI has a role.
>>
>> What do you want from OI people?. If they are only half a dozen
>> "integrators", what kind of help you want from these poor guys?.
>
> I want to help them.  But I can't do that while they are stuck trying to
> follow in Oracle's footsteps.  *If* we can move forward, I can help them
> and probably *double* their resource.  If we can't do that, then I'll
> probably wind up spending that resource starting a new project instead.
>

Where do you want to take an Illumos based distro?