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

[Till Wegmueller]

No. Nobody is ever too small to achieve something. You just need to be 
clever about it. We always have the assumption that building packages is 
the main burden for Systems, but that is only if you don't have the 
right automation. And that is possible. Fully automate bumping package 
versions is possible. Build systems are similar enough, aaand many 
projects now switch to meson which is specifically automate able and 
standardized. So the burden is only there if you are not innovative. And 
our size makes us the perfect group for such innovation. We have the 
need. The Debian community does not have a need for innovation in 
packaging automation they are to big. When I talk with my friend which 
is Debian packager from the very beginning, he says the same. Everybody 
is happy with the Status quo and wants no changes as they don't need 
them. Then they get stuck. We can't afford to get stuck. Thats a good thing.

-Till

On 07.01.21 18:50, Guenther Alka wrote:
> In the end I do not think in these categories.
> 
> A few years ago all my own servers were OpenIndiana and maybe 40% of my 
> users on Solaris. Now I am 100% on OmniOS beside a OI evaluation machine 
> (and miss OI features and use cases) and maybe 10% of my users are left 
> on Solaris with OI near to not relevant now.
> 
> OmniOS and OI are OpenSource. Why not take over this from OmniOS to keep 
> them more in sync?
> On Linux Debian and Ubuntu are big enough to be independent while very 
> similar. On Illumos everyone may be too small alone in the long run.
> 
> Gea
> 
>>
>> What you want is to make a OmniOS extra respoitory (git) with GUi 
>> packages. That would factually mean abandoning OI and the Goal of a 
>> General Purpose OS. That would be an acquisition not a merger.
>>
>> -Till
>>
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