[OmniOS-discuss] illumos-joyent as a base for OmniOS

[Jared Morrow]

It is my impression that OmniOS is meant to be a rock-solid server OS, so
getting the latest and greatest "fun" stuff is probably less important than
getting things that are stable.  Joyent has the benefit of knowing where
and how they are going to deploy SmartOS, so some features they add are
meant more for that environment, rather than everyone else.  I personally
use SmartOS and OmniOS in a professional sense and although SmartOS has
some really amazing features which make it an amazing hypervisor, it also
seems to ship more bugs each release than I would hope for from a server
OS.  I've been bit many times with features that clearly don't work and
appear to not even be tested in the slightest.  Again, I use SmartOS and
like it, and I can't speak for OmniTI, but from my point of view, I'm glad
OmniOS is based on illumos-gate and not illumos-joyent.

-Jared


On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Andrzej Szeszo <aszeszo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> Was illumos-joyent ever considered as a base for OmniOS? All the fun stuff
> seems to appear there first.
>
> I think with some minor tweaks it could be used as a replacement for the
> upstream illumos-gate based tree.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrzej
>
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