[oi-dev] State of development

[Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz]

Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
> Hi GB,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.

Does this means that you think OpenIndiana is dead ? If yes, how to avoid it ?

>
> Regards,
>
> Alasdair
>
>
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> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Magnus <magnus at yonderway.com <mailto:magnus at yonderway.com>> wrote:
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>     On Apr 14, 2013, at 10:51 AM, G B wrote:
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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?
>
>     If you're coming from OpenBSD, this shouldn't be at all alarming.
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