The current analogy is:
1. Solaris 10/11 - production2. OpenIndiana - development/testing (but CAN be
used in 24/7 production)
Hipster snapshots, the latest versions, work reliably on specific hardware and
when using specific applications.
As for the small developer support, much of what was needed is done. The major
needs are usually listed in the Wiki and bug reports. Most of the FOSS apps
that run on Solaris can run on OpenIndiana in a 24/7 stable condition (I have
both CAD/CAM and FlightGear simulators that ran reliable for months on
OpenIndiana (hipster)).But the misconception of OpenIndiana stems from people
supporting the desktop model versus server model - and the external indirect
development community within most third-party IHV/ISVs.
Historically, the Schillix/Milax/Tribblix/OpenSXCE/Korona (aka Martux) distros
were 1-2 staffed crews. About 89% of the non-major Linux distros have no more
than 2-5 'developers' at the helm.
The key misconception is understanding that now that we have a core distro -
other distro makers are launchingtheir own 'spins' with their own support dev
teams (but with a rebranded distro name).
So from one river, many oceans.
~ Ken
On Friday, December 12, 2014 6:42 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
> OI Hipster change log can be found here:
> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/oi_hipster
I think that this looks impressive. The main issue (feature-wise)
seems to be the loss of SFE binary packages, and that SFE packages are
not yet ready for GCC (mostly a build-options problem).
There has recently been some minor discussion of OI Hipster on the SFE
development list.
Bob
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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