On 29 August 2012 15:30, Sašo Kiselkov <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/29/2012 02:42 PM, Cedric Blancher wrote: >> This is bitter, but I can understand you. Illumos has been nothing >> than a job generator for ex-Sun employees, and even that space has >> become smaller and smaller and those depend on it will fight for the >> little room available. >> >> Air is getting thinner, not only for OI but also Illumos itself... but >> that is a self-made issue: There has been too much focus on ZFS and >> it's "benefits", while ZFS has become better on Solaris 11, and for >> those who love open source with ZFS there is FreeBSD, where ZFS runs >> smoother and with less memory consumption than on Illumos. It also >> *feels* that innovation has stopped in Ilumos. >> >> Each time I read Illumos these days I think about a word: Remnants - >> the leftover which was once a thriving empire. > > As much as I am sad to see the chief of OpenIndiana leave (I'm an > exclusive OpenIndiana user myself), I would like to contest your claim > that ZFS innovation has stopped in Illumos. Just because your favorite > features haven't been implemented doesn't mean that it's not there:
I was talking about any other innovation than ZFS (and in an extended circle dtrace, too). There has been almost zero innovation on the other parts (and I shudder at the progress of even simple things like grep -r, it's talked to death, literally. BSD did the same change years ago in a few hours from RFE to commit). Ced -- Cedric Blancher <[email protected]> Institute Pasteur _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
