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

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On 10/10/2014 14:22, ken mays via openindiana-discuss wrote:



I understand that there is a new SSL Beta version available and some 
patches for the latest Bash version.Perhaps someone could test these and 
push them downstream.

Robert

On 10/10/2014 14:22, ken mays via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> 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
>
>
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> On Friday, October 10, 2014 5:59 AM, The Outsider <openindiana at out-side.nl> wrote:
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>
> 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.
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>
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> On 10 oktober 2014 02:08:00 Dave Pooser <dave-oi at pooserville.com> wrote:
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>> 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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