After the initial announcement a few months ago (and subsequent flame
fest ;) ), I haven't seen any further discussion of Illumian, and was
curious as to its status.
We were just about ready to start migrating from Solaris 10 to
OpenSolaris at work, and I was about to build an OpenSolaris-based
storage box at home, when it started into its death spiral :(. I've been
keeping an eye on OpenIndiana, but with no offense intended :), I'm not
particularly fond of IPS, so a production quality dpkg based
distribution sounds appealing. I never used NCP, but heard very good
things about it from others that did, so a new Illumos based Nexenta
backed distribution might be a good candidate for a Solaris replacement.
The only thing that might make it better would be if Nexenta found a
plausible business model where they could offer some type of support, as
that would make it a much easier sell to management <sigh>... Not silly
"hold my hand" support, but more along the lines of "my server kernel
panics every time it tries to import the zpool holding 20TB of important
data" support :).
Thanks for any update...
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Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/
Operating Systems and Network Analyst | [email protected]
California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768
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