Hello Alasdair, "Alasdair Lumsden" <[email protected]> írta 2012-08-29 02:18-kor: > It is with much sadness that I hereby resign as project lead. I may, if > the situation improves under a new project lead, stick around to offer > my opinion or occasional assistance, but my resignation is final; I have > no wish to return to the project in a leadership capacity.
I'm sad about your decesion, but I hope, you think it again or at least show us direction and sy continues your work as great as you did. > But it is also in part due to frustrations with the difficulty of making > any progress on the project. OpenSolaris was maintained by a large I always say to my collegues that: Don't fix sg. which already works! > I lay the blame of this squarely on the lack of a successful general > purpose distribution of Solaris/Illumos. OpenIndiana was my attempt at > competing with the Linux distros, but our lack of progress has torpedoed > it. Nobody in their right mind would use OI - it ships severely out of > date insecure software, lacks some of the most common 3rd party apps > such as LibreOffice, and so much simple shit that should just work, such I think you see a glass half empty. But that glass is almost full, from another point of view: Every Server thing I ever tried on OI is works, and do it's work more stable than the competing linux varinats. Eg. Storage platform: And I'm not talking about ZFS and the advantages of it, but if you want to implement a storage server on Linux You will suck. Suck with the incompatible implementations of iSCSI targets. (And at least all of them is a piece of shit...) That you cannot resize a lun on the fly. All off them sucks by design. On OI you just install comstar, and it just works. I think there is a difference on quality beetween the two approach: Design first than implement (like in OI) and do sg. which seems sign of work, then hack it... Let's see OS level virtualization: On linux there is vserver, openvz, lxc, and who knows what else, with different feature sets. Except LXC all off them is a separate patch. With huge warnings of it's lack of official / out of box support even in distros like Debian... On OI there are zones. Well designed, and simply just works. Again. I could continue, but I hope You see my point. > With the ZFSOnLinux port becoming increasingly popular (so many of the > Linux users I know are using it), and > brtfs/dtrace-on-linux/upstart/whatever else slowly brewing away, even > some of the core features of Illumos are becoming less and less Maybe it's popular. I use (and administer) linux since '96... It's many time. But now, I would never even try a linux (or bsd) zfs implementation, without comstar and the related things I get from OI which is more robust in any beta/alfa/any version of OI, than in a mega-hiper-stable-patched-r<many> release of any linux. > - what matters is perception and the typical Linux user is happy with > "good enough". When I encourage my Linux-using friends to try OI they > laugh in my face. OI and Illumos to them is a dead platform. Add to that > our increasingly out of date and poor hardware support due to the march > of never ending new LAN/SATA/SAS/motherboard/GPU chipsets and you start > to get the picture. With time and wisdom any linux user bore in the hacks, workarounds and other time wasting things, and wants a system which just works. I don't remember where I see the logo, if it was a late (realy open) OpenSoleris or it was on the OpenIndiana boot screen but that phrase is very true: Love at first boot! > Finally, I wish Illumos every success. Ultimately Illumos is what > matters, OI was only ever going to be a vessel for delivering it's power > to end users. May it go from strength to strength and get the > recognition, attention and user-base it so rightly deserves. +1 With many thanks for your work, György Pásztor, end user/sysadmin. _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
