[oi-dev] State of development

[Brian Hechinger]

On 4/14/2013 9:11 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote:
> At Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:51:37 -0700 (PDT),
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>> Presently my commercial websites and mail servers run on OpenBSD, but I am in the
>> process of moving them to either OpenIndiana, FreeBSD, or NetBSD.  I have more than
>> a decade using Solaris in the enterprise for some very large companies, so my
>> knowledge of Solaris gives OI a step ahead of the competition.
>>
>> FreeBSD does have DTrace and ZFS, but ZFS is installed by default by OI (of
>> course).  But OI also gives me the opportunity to run Solaris binaries such as
>> ooRexx and DB2 that the others cannot run.  FreeBSD does have ooRexx 3.0 available,
>> but only for the i386 architecture, and I need amd64.
>>
>> The OI website seems to not be mostly unmaintained and although the openindiana.org
>> site is available, the few mirrors that did or do exist seem to be shutting down.
>>
>> I would certainly like to use OI, but I'm concerned about the state.
>>
>> OI's last release was Oct 2012, so my question is when is the next release (151a8)
>> scheduled to be released?
>>
> Consider using SmartOS to host vm's of FreeBSD for your bread and
> butter apps.  Then you still have Solaris goodness for e.g. ooRexx and
> DB2.  Note, however, that I have no clue as to current status of
> either on SmartOS.
>
> Good luck-- Ken
>

There is also Omni-OS, which if the original poster's experience is in 
Solaris will work well for him. It's a lot more Solaris like than 
SmartOS, IMHO.

-brian