[OpenIndiana-discuss] Future of OI (was Bash Bug issue)

[ken mays]

You missed Tribblix and DilOS and a few others. Same as in cars, why are there so many of them that do
similar things ??? Choices.

Tribblix, XStreamOS-Desktop, and OI are the current leading 'desktop-oriented' distros. Those distros differ in
package management and default desktops (amongest other things). OpenSXCE was one of the leading
 desktop distros for the OpenSolaris community that supported both x86/x86-64 and legacy SPARC platforms.

As in cars, people working on similar things can contribute to each other as well as the big brother distro
(aka Solaris). Some distro projects are self funded or corporate sponsored (Nexenta, OmniOS, SmartOS, etc).

OI was more about the foundation of testing the latest Illumos kernel snapshots and porting the core upstream consolidations - while supporting a desktop UI experience. People wanted to support the 'core OS' consolidations and some of the legacy OpenSolaris core projects.

People then branch out and spread their wings to build/consult/enhance/embrace... hence, like a phoenix....

~K



On Friday, October 10, 2014 5:59 AM, The Outsider <openindiana at out-side.nl> wrote:
 


True!

That's why i pay for hard&software support on solaris 11.2. (Prices are 
reasonable when you have Sun hardware)

But 11.2 != openindiana.




On 10 oktober 2014 02:08:00 Dave Pooser <dave-oi at pooserville.com> wrote:

> On 10/9/14 5:13 PM, "The Outsider" <openindiana at out-side.nl> wrote:
>
> >Hmm i am sorry. I seem to have missed that.
> >Last time i installed and tested it i needed to get a registrationkey and
> >wasn't allowed to use nexenta for business without paying a quite high
> >amount of euros.
> >
> >But that was 3 years ago.
>
> Open source != free-as-in-beer
> --
> Dave Pooser
> Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com
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