On September 5, 2017 6:14:30 PM GMT+02:00, Gabriele Bulfon <gbul...@sonicle.com> wrote: >...you picked up my concerns...and we're already thinking about >possible new paths for our XStreamOS... >Sonicle S.r.l. >: >http://www.sonicle.com >Music: >http://www.gabrielebulfon.com >Quantum Mechanics : >http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/gabrielebulfon >---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Da: Udo Grabowski (IMK) >A: Discussion list for OpenIndiana >Data: 5 settembre 2017 13.37.41 CEST >Oggetto: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] So is Solaris officially supported >till 2034? >On 05/09/2017 12:45, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: >The real concern is...in the short or long period, how much support for >Solaris kernels can we expect from third parties such VMware? >They may completely remove the "Oracle Solaris 11 64bit" from the list >of supported VMs. >This may happen elsewhere, as happened recently at MongoDB. >This may hurt the illumos ecosystem in the short/long term. >What do you think? >Sonicle S.r.l. >I think we will this see very quickly, all third-party vendors >will cease Solaris SPARC and x86 support on short notice, especially >NVIDIA, which will practically end the possibility to use any illumos >derivative on the desktop on a midterm timescale. Since we as a >research institute depend on third-party support this will more >sooner than later force us to move to Linux, regardless if we want >this or not. So reality will terminate OI, only specialized use in >the storage domain may survive some time, but also there driver >support will sooner or later completely evaporate. >-- >Dr.Udo Grabowski Inst.f.Meteorology &Climate Research IMK-ASF-SAT >http://www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/sat.php >KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology http://www.kit.edu >Postfach 3640,76021 Karlsruhe,Germany T:(+49)721 608-26026 F:-926026 >_______________________________________________ >openindiana-discuss mailing list >openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org >https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >_______________________________________________ >openindiana-discuss mailing list >openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org >https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
So we need a klx (kernel-lx) project to run linux drivers? ;) Do vendors support BSDs well?... Jim -- Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Android _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss