Belenix development is underway - it's just not on public servers yet. -- Ram
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:02 AM, David H <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Seth, > > I think that Joerg is quite right, we need to place a bit of > organization around it and the work must be done by an external > coordinator, not a developer tied to a single distribution. Some key > contributing distributions may include: > - Belenix, mentioned on the list that they were resuming development > cycles in 2013. I have not seen much activity since May 2013. > Sometimes, affiliated members appear on the Illumos/OpenIndiana lists. > - Tribblix has been active on the list, re-adding some features such > as Sparse Zones. (We use this feature aggressively under Solaris 10 > and have been waiting for it to re-appear under OpenSolaris.) > - DilOS has been active on the list, refreshing early features from > OpenSolaris such as Xen. It appears they were open to host OpenSXCE. > - OpenSXCE had done some great work, refreshing capabilities from > OpenSolaris, such as SPARC. (Looks pretty good, we have been testing.) > > I made some effort to pull together distros for better cooperation. > Some of my thoughts were included in the following presentation. > http://svr4.blogspot.com/ > > There are hidden pages behind this lonely looking svr4 blog. It was > prepped for a release, but enough progress to make Illumos more ISV, > Carrier, and Managed Service Provider friendly did not happen. The > window of opportunity for some members in the community to earn a > living on 3 new verticals and diversify from cloud and storage silo > had closed... and so did the time I had to invest in the community. > > I am interested in collaboration, but my time is more limited, until > we can make some serious progress in diversifying, so this product can > become more appealing to new market verticals. With 3 new market > verticals, each earning about $333K/year, new community members could > probably become compensated contributors, without internally competing > against other existing founding contributors, and the overall pie > could grow. > > There are probably a 4th and 5th market vertical that can be > approached, with Oracle abandoning other markets, recently. This could > bring the cooperative effort down to multiple revenue streams of > $250K/year or even $200K/year to be distributed among community > members. > > If the various non-commercial distro's could come together with a > little organization and a single (functioning) network packaging > forum, this could be beneficial for a bunch of community members... > not to mention, that I might not have to migrate a bunch of my systems > to Linux or Windows, but that number shrinks daily. :-( > > Thanks, David Halko > http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am with you when you say that people should collaborate. Although, > > > > > >> > >>- IPS must not be the only packaging > >> > > > > is quite reasonable. I don't undestand why > > > > > >>- /usr/gnu must not be the default first entry in PATH > >> > >>- /sbin/sh may be a link to the Bourne Shell > >> > > > > Bash is great and fortunately or unfortunately most applications > > expect bash and not Bourne shell. Also, I have compiled a number of > > > > important tools and all expect the GNU ls, GNU ld, etc. For starters > > OpenOffice/LibreOffice expect GNU tools. In addition, since it is > > > > not trivial to maintain 'ld' and 'as' why not adopting the GNU > > equivalents and forget about the Solaris things. And of course, > > sooner or later people should choose to use either GCC or LLVM > > > > as the official compiler. Sun Studio is closed source and not > > > > actively maintained. > > > > A.S. > > > > > > ---------------------- > > Apostolos Syropoulos > > Xanthi, Greece > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > > illumos-discuss > > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175845-b97465aa > > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175777-e7632f0f > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175777&id_secret=21175777-713ed3e7 > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Belenix: www.belenix.org
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