On 4/14/2013 9:11 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote:
At Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:51:37 -0700 (PDT),
G B wrote:
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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
There is also Omni-OS, which if the original poster's experience is in
Solaris will work well for him. It's a lot more Solaris like than
SmartOS, IMHO.
-brian
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