About OmniOS
OmniOS feels now like an airplane where captain and crew jumped off from now to then. Only passengers left, first class ones and others who where lucky to win a free trip with free lunch and drinks but now no one in sight willing or more propably capable to replace captain and crew and staff to run the airplane as a commercial project.
I have thought a while what to do but it is now clear to me and napp-it that I revert to OpenIndiana as default free napp-it platform. OpenIndiana was already my default years ago when Oracle closed the door and OpenIndiana 151a was more or less the OpenSolaris fork with a lot of old Sun code what slows development and hinders a stable minimal server platform. At that time OmniOS was first thought to be build ontop of OpenIndiana but due its deep interaction with the desktop version the idea of a new minimal free Solaris fork was born at Illumos and for OmniOS. This makes Illumos with OmniOS as a minimal server distribution a more favourable platform for a ZFS server than OpenIndiana.
This is history. OpenIndiana stopped further development of OpenIndiana 151a and switched to pure Illumos under the name OpenIndiana Hipster with a quite large software repository. They are now offering a Illumos distribution as a minimal, a textedition (quite identical to OmniOS) and a version with the Mate GUI.
While there are other free Illumos based options like Xstream and SmartOS, both with a commercial background, OpenIndiana as a real community and OpenSource project for a general use server is the way to go for napp-it from now on as the main platform beside Oracle Solaris, the mother of all.
The king is dead, long live the king OpenIndiana. Work together to make this stronger.
Hope to see the OmniOS goodies there in future (LX, LTS support). Thats how I see it.
btw
There is a new napp-it 17.06 free/Pro
Gea
@napp-it.org
OmniOS feels now like an airplane where captain and crew jumped off from now to then. Only passengers left, first class ones and others who where lucky to win a free trip with free lunch and drinks but now no one in sight willing or more propably capable to replace captain and crew and staff to run the airplane as a commercial project.
I have thought a while what to do but it is now clear to me and napp-it that I revert to OpenIndiana as default free napp-it platform. OpenIndiana was already my default years ago when Oracle closed the door and OpenIndiana 151a was more or less the OpenSolaris fork with a lot of old Sun code what slows development and hinders a stable minimal server platform. At that time OmniOS was first thought to be build ontop of OpenIndiana but due its deep interaction with the desktop version the idea of a new minimal free Solaris fork was born at Illumos and for OmniOS. This makes Illumos with OmniOS as a minimal server distribution a more favourable platform for a ZFS server than OpenIndiana.
This is history. OpenIndiana stopped further development of OpenIndiana 151a and switched to pure Illumos under the name OpenIndiana Hipster with a quite large software repository. They are now offering a Illumos distribution as a minimal, a textedition (quite identical to OmniOS) and a version with the Mate GUI.
While there are other free Illumos based options like Xstream and SmartOS, both with a commercial background, OpenIndiana as a real community and OpenSource project for a general use server is the way to go for napp-it from now on as the main platform beside Oracle Solaris, the mother of all.
The king is dead, long live the king OpenIndiana. Work together to make this stronger.
Hope to see the OmniOS goodies there in future (LX, LTS support). Thats how I see it.
btw
There is a new napp-it 17.06 free/Pro
Gea
@napp-it.org
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