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

[Guenther Alka]

Not broken as it never worked
(multi purpose Illumos Unix with a stable/long term stable/newest beta 
base).

OI currently: always and only newest beta based
so Yes: (maybe easy to say as I cannot help to do the needed work - 
unsure about the needed efforts)

When I remember the first steps of OpenIndiana, the lack of a stable was 
a constant item on all meetings.

When OmniOS started they first tried to use OpenIndiana as base what was 
more or less OpenSolaris at that time with too many dependencies. Then 
Illumos started as a minimalistic OS based on OpenSolaris and OmniOS 
used this as base. Now as OI is pure Illumos as base and OmniOS is more 
or less pure Illumos freezed in a fork per release there is no real 
reason to have two bases and two software repositories for different use 
cases with the problem for OI that the underlying Illumos can change 
from day to day.

Gea

Am 07.01.2021 um 17:24 schrieb Chris:
> On 2021-01-07 06:02, Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>> Well spoken,, Gea! I am in favour of consolidating the OpenSolarish 
>> community. If
>> merging would reinvogarate interest and momentum, it can be worth it. 
>> And you guys
>> have been discussing this merging for ages, it is your old idea taken 
>> up again. It
>> seems that several of you think this is the only way forward, in the 
>> long run.
>> This is what we want to do. Base a desktop package ontop OmniOS 
>> stable (or LTS). I
>> am interested in helping such an effort.
>> Some people say yay, some say nay. Should we create a poll, to see 
>> how large the
>> interest is?
>
> I vote: NAY.
> There is no need to fix what is not broken.
>
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