[OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

[Nikola M]

On 02/26/15 12:16 AM, Bruce Lilly wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:53 AM, Nikola M <minikola at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you find other things out of date or not representing current state of
>> affairs on the Wiki,
>> feel free to post a bug report, comment or request Wiki account if you
>> feel you can contribute some content to the Wiki.
>>
> It's pretty much everything; for example, just a few clicks from Wiki+Home
> gets one to http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/OpenIndiana+Releases
> which would be funny if it weren't so sad (here it is late in the first
> quarter of 2015, and the 2011.Q4 release is "Pending").
>
> If it looked as though there might be a road map leading somewhere I might
> have been more inclined to pursue OpenIndiana as a Linux replacement (must
> get away from the systemd debacle), but I couldn't find anything
> encouraging, and while there is a lot that looks interesting, there are too
> many critical issues that seem to be being ignored, so I'm focusing on
> something (viz. NetBSD) that does appear to be moving forward.
>
Yeah, you are absolutely right.
So here are firstly - mailing lists to move things forward.

Soon as people diagnose what everyone is capable of doing to contribute 
(in terms of free time, money, knowledge and craftsmanship) in various 
areas, things can move forward.

Regarding managing services on Unix-like OSes, illumos and Opensolaris 
descendent OS'es enjoy Service management Facility (SMF), maybe you 
could comment how it stand for you, comparing to other service 
management ways you mentioned? If you have OI installed, you could try 
it out. (And see if it could be improved).

Most encouraging about OI currently is that no one stands in your way! :)
If wanting to fork, build or use existing development machines , just 
request account.
If wanting to make changes (you are already making them actually), just do.
If want to form a group over some issue of a RFE, just form it :P
Rest is coming your way.

Aha and not to forget, if you do name "critical things that seems to be 
ignored", at your opinion,
I am sure we'll all be much obliged , because that's kind of things that 
are needed to make fire star :)

Oh yes and there's "tiny-miny" License difference between CDDL and *BSD. 
We are like, Copyleft instead of "Free for all". But CDDL can link with 
other licenses (open or closed) to create distributable binaries, so 
code could be shared between *BSD variants and others. So one can have 
"both cakes" and be Copyleft.
Ah and Solaris (illumos is Opensolaris descendant) is much better then 
anything else and it usually foster ABI compatibility, driver 
compatibility , nicer network speed and virtualization (crossbow, zones) 
etc :)

Actually we miss UDF support that's nice in NetBSD, that things needs 
porting :)
Everything else, Netbsd is missing even more :P