[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI roadmap (for production)

[Predrag Zečević - Unix Systems Administrator]

On 12/ 4/15 04:53 PM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
> Hi Predrag,
>
> what speaks against using OI in server use? I did that for the last few years without problems. What do you think is missing?
>
> Cheers
>   Stefan
> ________________________________________
> Von: Predrag Zečević - Unix Systems Administrator [predrag.zecevic at 2e-systems.com]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 4. Dezember 2015 16:33
> An: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Betreff: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI roadmap (for production)
>
> On 12/ 4/15 04:18 PM, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote:
>> Thank you for the detailed response. I understand that there is a lot of
>> work to do. But the work should have a goal. "we try to ride the car and
>> tune it simultaneously" - doesn't that mean that OI will never be ready
>> for production use?
>>
>> As for what do I want to know... A simpler question: What branch of OI
>> (dev or hipster) you would recommend for production use?
>
> Hi all,
>
> IMHO OpenIndiana /hipster is OK for desktop use (not ideal, but if you
> like it...).
>
> For serious use (if Oracle Solaris is out of question) I would use one
> of SERVER distributions, mentioned here:
> http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/Distributions (SmartOS is maybe
> best choice. Of course I do not know what needs you really have)
>
> Personally I use /hipster from OI for every day job (is that production
> use?) and despite some problems and missing bits, I found it very stable
> and fairly good to use (consider latest Firefox,
> OpenSSH/OpenSSL/OpenLDAP, OpenOffice, LibreOffice /SFE/, TimeSlider,
> VirtualBox, etc).
>
> Best regards.
> --
Hi Stefan,

depends on "server" definition!

If that is SAMP - no problems (Apache/PHP are latest ones, and instead 
of MySQL use either Percona or MariaDb - which is great).

CIFS/Samba also works fine, Has all sort of servers: sFTP, FTP, DNS, etc
VirtualBox runs everything

So, can be used in most cases (once more: depends what is server 
definition) *but* it is NOT decalred as ready for production use, so one 
can use it if that is acceptable...

Also, number of people involved in OS maintenance made me suggest 
SmartOS or OmniIT...

Best regards.

P.S I am writing this from OI /hipster which I still find attractive and 
useful.

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