At Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:51:37 -0700 (PDT), G B wrote: > > [1 <multipart/alternative (7bit)>] > [1.1 <text/plain; iso-8859-1 (quoted-printable)>] > > [1.2 <text/html; iso-8859-1 (quoted-printable)>] > Presently my commercial websites and mail servers run on OpenBSD, but I am in > the > process of moving them to either OpenIndiana, FreeBSD, or NetBSD. I have > more than > a decade using Solaris in the enterprise for some very large companies, so my > knowledge of Solaris gives OI a step ahead of the competition. > > FreeBSD does have DTrace and ZFS, but ZFS is installed by default by OI (of > course). But OI also gives me the opportunity to run Solaris binaries such as > ooRexx and DB2 that the others cannot run. FreeBSD does have ooRexx 3.0 > available, > but only for the i386 architecture, and I need amd64. > > The OI website seems to not be mostly unmaintained and although the > openindiana.org > site is available, the few mirrors that did or do exist seem to be shutting > down. > > I would certainly like to use OI, but I'm concerned about the state. > > OI's last release was Oct 2012, so my question is when is the next release > (151a8) > scheduled to be released? >
Consider using SmartOS to host vm's of FreeBSD for your bread and butter apps. Then you still have Solaris goodness for e.g. ooRexx and DB2. Note, however, that I have no clue as to current status of either on SmartOS. Good luck-- Ken _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
