Re: [OmniOS-discuss] The Future of OmniOS

2017-05-02 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:21 AM, Robert Treat wrote: >> >> I hope the answer to the best safest place is OmniOS. To that end, we have >> no plans to stop running OmniOS at this time, and

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] The Future of OmniOS

2017-04-27 Thread Peter Tribble
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:21 AM, Robert Treat wrote: > I hope the answer to the best safest place is OmniOS. To that end, we have > no plans to stop running OmniOS at this time, and presuming the project can > make the jump to community maintainership, we won't need to

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] The Future of OmniOS

2017-04-26 Thread Robert Treat
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:11 AM Linda Kateley wrote: > Robert, > > After reading everything I can in the last few days.. I have a couple > questions which I hope you can answer honestly. > > This announcement on the heals of a massive change in the freenas > community make

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] The Future of OmniOS

2017-04-25 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 25 Apr 2017, Linda Kateley wrote: And one short comment.. I have have been watching following you guys for awhile now, and I never knew your hope or wish was for the community to pick up omnios. This surprises me. I am sure they would have if they had known. This was a surprise to me

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] The Future of OmniOS

2017-04-25 Thread Linda Kateley
Robert, After reading everything I can in the last few days.. I have a couple questions which I hope you can answer honestly. This announcement on the heals of a massive change in the freenas community make me wonder if there is any "backroom" pressure coming to companies supporting zfs?

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] The Future of OmniOS

2017-04-24 Thread Nikola M
On 04/21/17 09:19 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: > As both a home hobbyist user of OmniOS and a paid support user of OmniOS at > my day job, I'd first like to thank you guys for putting together a great > operating system that has served me well over the years and I hope will > continue to do so. > >

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] The Future of OmniOS

2017-04-23 Thread Robert Treat
Security updates are a little bit trickier than just pulling in general upstream changes, but I think the ideal scenario would be to form a group of interested people around the "secur...@omnios.org" label which would collaborate on fielding and producing security fixes for the project. Given we

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] The Future of OmniOS

2017-04-21 Thread Tobias Oetiker
So, there you have it ... software is not free, and for something as complex and slick as OmniOS, there is serious money involved in keeping it at its current level. It seems that OmniTI has not managed to get this message across to the many organizations relying on OmniOS to run their Servers.