Ugh, I am not sure people are missing the point here. In fact, it's the point that illumos is an unburdened O/N, and O/N only. You need a distro built upon it to actually benefit from illumos, plus things like X Windows stack (FOX gate?,) GNOME desktop or whatever desktop environment of choice by distro builder.
Where is that distro? One cannot count on Indiana to switch, because if Oracle were to do it, it would be easier just resume /dev release after all. StormOS site hasn't been updated for several months I think. It is the same reason, I think, why indiana is created, and as its predecessor, SXCE, for nevada code base. As matter of fact, only when a distro using illumos emerges, current stagnancy can be improved. > I think people are missing the point here. This is > just my $0.02, but > the effort is akin to kernel.org. They are > maintaining a fully-open > base system in which others may build a distribution > from. It is a lot > of userland too, but its most akin to being kernel, > libc, and what one > expects in /sbin. They want to be upstream > compatible. If a > distribution wants to use their revision of ON as a > _basis_ for their > distribution, great. Efforts to support third party > components will > generally sit upon a full distribution, which is not > being provided by > IllumOS. > > They mentioned that a "distribution" may be released, > but its whole > purpose is a bootstrap to help create a more complete > full > distribution. If you want a workstation/desktop > class, one could for > instance use StormOS or similar, which is a > workstation/desktop > edition above Nexenta Core by another third party. We > are all talking > about various building blocks here. One can't expect > the end product > from the group thats solely focused on engine parts. > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
