On 12/13/2014 03:46, Robert Fleming wrote:
So what's happened to the project?
Hello.
We are still alive if you mean this :)
It's not the best time for OI. There are not enough developers, but we
are progressing slowly.
There are currently two OI distributions.
The distribution constructed in the old way, OI dev. It uses Sun Studio
compilers and Sun-derived build systems and consolidations. Last release
was 151a9 in January. Since then this distribution receives only
critical bug fixes. The problem is that there are too much issues and
too little fixes.
The development distribution which is using rolling-release model, OI
Hipster. To be clear, I'm biased as I work on this distribution. It uses
Oracle userland-based build system and GCC compiler. It delivers the
latest illumos-gate version and receives more attention these days. But
it can be not stable enough for production use - e.g, there can be
breakage of some interfaces (for example, we've just deprecated all
Studio-compiled C++ libraries and moved GCC-compile C++ libraries to
/usr, in this way clearly breaking ABI) and applications (after all,
that's development distribution).
You can find more information on our wiki.
OI dev 151a9 Release notes:
http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/oi_151a_prestable9+Release+Notes
OI Hipster change log can be found here:
http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/oi_hipster
More information about OI Hipster: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Hipster
ISOs can be found here:
OI dev: http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/151a8/ (there's no 151a9 ISO,
you should install 151a8 and update )
OI Hipster: http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/ (latest ISO is
20141010).
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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department
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