[OpenIndiana-discuss] Some questions about OpenIndiana

[Anatoli Marinov]

Good Questions. I also want to see the clear answers for that :)
I need to take a decision what OS to install on my laptop which will be 
used for C development workstation and I am interested of dtrace and 
netbeans/sds.


On 31.12.2010 г. 02:32, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi there
>
> Long time FreeBSD user, I recently used OpenIndiana live CD to recover
> a faulty zpool on which FreeBSD kept crashing.
>
> Was pleasantly surprised on how smooth everything went.
>
> I am now looking at migrating our file server from FreeBsd to a
> Solaris based distribution.
>
> My ZFS zpool is now at version 28 which limits me with what I can actually use.
>
> My primary concern with OpenIndiana is how new it is, only a couple of
> months old. So questions related to stabilities are obviously there.
>
> Being a "development" version is also a worry.
>
> To be honest, I don't care whatsoever if an OS is open source or
> closed source, as long as it works well and is stable and obviously
> cheap enough.
>
> I looked at Solaris Express 11, but one thing in the FAQ worries me
> related to not having access to bug fixes or updates unless I have a
> contract support with Oracle; is this actually the case?
>
> That once I install Solaris Express, should I want access to any
> updates, then I must get a contract support license? ($1000 per year
> for non oracle hardware)
>
> How different to Solaris 11 is OpenIndiana ? The FAQ aims at having
> binary compatibility with Solaris and make a reference of CentOS vs
> RHEL.
>
> Needless to say I'm very confused with the current situation as to
> OpenSolaris vs Solaris, all the various forks etc.
>
> Ultimately, what I'm after right now is something stable and
> performant, that can read my zpool v28 and supports kernel cifs and
> that I will easily be able to integrate with our LDAP / Kerberos
> backend.
>
> Thank you !
>
> And if this is not the right place to ask, please let me know where I
> should go.
>
> Jean-Yves
>
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