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

[Chris]

On 2021-01-07 13:50, 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.
IMHO No that RHEL is in bed with IBM, and as a result; RHEL, and CentOS 
taking
quite a different path. OI is likely to see a greater influx of users. A 
quick
look on the CentOS mailinglists/forums indicates thier userbase is LIVID 
about
the changes. The was not one single positive note about the change.
tl;dr
A lot of CentOS, and as a result, RHEL users; are abandoning ship. They'll 
all
be going *somewhere*. Maybe it's to OI. :-)

--Chris
> 
> 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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