What is the Status of OpenSolaris?
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Has anyone been keeping up with the status of the OpenSolaris system and the child products from it? For a long time people were all active and excited about Illumos and where it was taking things after Solaris went closed source. But Illumos appears to be pretty stagnant and their reference distro hasn't gotten an update for nearly two years, OpenIndiana. Some of the key projects that Illumos still lists on their website, are gone.
Has this project just petered out and died? In some ways that is sad, but in others, did OpenSolaris ever really matter? They started moving away from Sparc some time ago leaving them without a lot of point to enterprise shops that were looking at them to specifically add an open source option to their Sparc hardware.
Since the big features of OpenSolaris, like ZFS and DTrace, were ported to FreeBSD and other systems long ago, is there really a driving reason to use a potentially dead, years old OS platform like this? Is this just one too many open source operating systems devouring otherwise useful programmer resources that should be focused on the Linux or BSD families where development is active and useful?
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Come and join us in two weeks at the second EU OpenZFS summit in Paris
http://www.meetup.com/OpenZFS-Europe/events/218873174/
http://www.meetup.com/OpenZFS-Europe/events/220183795/And you will see some OpenZFS core devs and people/companies active on the topic.
Illumos distro :
http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/Distributions#illumosOmniOS and SmartOS are pretty active...
https://github.com/omniti-labs/illumos-omnios/tree/master/usr/src/uts/common/fs/zfs
https://github.com/joyent/smartos-liveAnd ZoL is on the ramp up, my team is pushing a contrib BTW and in case it may be of interest to you guys ? :
https://github.com/Alyseo/zfs/tree/json-0.6.4 -
@Yacine-Kheddache thanks for the informative follow up! Great to see that there is activity on this project. I'll definitely do some digging into the resources that you provided.
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@Yacine-Kheddache said:
Come and join us in two weeks at the second EU OpenZFS summit in Paris
I'm based in Granada. If I hadn't just gotten back from London, I might have zipped up there!
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Yacine-Kheddache thanks for the informative follow up! Great to see that there is activity on this project. I'll definitely do some digging into the resources that you provided.
You are Welcome Scott.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Yacine-Kheddache said:
Come and join us in two weeks at the second EU OpenZFS summ
it in ParisI'm based in Granada. If I hadn't just gotten back from London, I might have zipped up there!
No worries, we will live broadcast all the summit : please check the meetup page and will add the link :
http://www.meetup.com/OpenZFS-Europe/?scroll=trueAnd we will also (later) put all videos online (like last year) :
https://www.youtube.com/user/AlyseoDotCom
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I loved SunOS, Solaris, and OpenSolaris, but after the Oracle buyout all of the Sun equipment has been slowly replaced and has gone away for the most part, and with the important features being ported to other OSes like FreeBSD, there's not much of a real reason to use OpenSolaris or its babies. Having said that though, I'm put off by the name OpenIndiana, it just sounds really stupid to me, and I don't think I could ever install something like that without flat out denying it if anyone asked. It just makes me think "that's the best name you could come up with, huh? Not even anything remotely related to the Sun or stars or anything..." (I realise the origin comes from a project name, but sticking with it was a mistake, so in a sense I guess I should say "So, couldn't come up with anything at all?")
