[OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 30 Dec 2020, Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>
> I bet many more than I, would be very excited in one unified illumos 
> distro where we merge OmniOS and OI. I understand there is lot of 
> prestige involved, but if we dont do want OpenSolaris to diminish 
> and die to Linux, we all maybe should put aside the prestige? :)

Many people would not be exited since the two distributions have very 
different objectives (extreme stability & spartan footprint vs 
rapid-release + full desktop).

If you were actually using these two distributions for some time, the 
difference in objectives would be obvious.

There appears to be quite a lot of sharing going on since the source 
repositories are shared and common elements get pushed up to Illumos.

Bob
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