Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-08 Thread Jim Klimov
On January 8, 2021 1:27:34 AM UTC, Chris wrote: >On 2021-01-07 13:50, Guenther Alka wrote: >> In the end I do not think in these categories. >> >> A few years ago all my own servers were OpenIndiana and maybe 40% of >my >> users on >> Solaris. Now I am 100% on OmniOS beside a OI evaluation

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-07 Thread Chris
On 2021-01-07 13:50, Guenther Alka wrote: In the end I do not think in these categories. A few years ago all my own servers were OpenIndiana and maybe 40% of my users on Solaris. Now I am 100% on OmniOS beside a OI evaluation machine (and miss OI features and use cases) and maybe 10% of my

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-07 Thread Aurélien Larcher
On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 11:04 PM Till Wegmueller wrote: > No. Nobody is ever too small to achieve something. You just need to be > clever about it. We always have the assumption that building packages is > the main burden for Systems, but that is only if you don't have the > right automation. And

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-07 Thread Till Wegmueller
No. Nobody is ever too small to achieve something. You just need to be clever about it. We always have the assumption that building packages is the main burden for Systems, but that is only if you don't have the right automation. And that is possible. Fully automate bumping package versions is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-07 Thread Guenther Alka
In the end I do not think in these categories. A few years ago all my own servers were OpenIndiana and maybe 40% of my users on Solaris. Now I am 100% on OmniOS beside a OI evaluation machine (and miss OI features and use cases) and maybe 10% of my users are left on Solaris with OI near to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-07 Thread Till Wegmueller
Nope On 07.01.21 18:05, Guenther Alka wrote: Please ignore my lack of knowledge if I am not correct or simplify too much. As far as I know kayak is a tool to setup OmniOS. I do not use. I download either the OI or OmniOS installer, create a bootable dvd or USB stick from it and install the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-07 Thread Guenther Alka
Please ignore my lack of knowledge if I am not correct or simplify too much. As far as I know kayak is a tool to setup OmniOS. I do not use. I download either the OI or OmniOS installer, create a bootable dvd or USB stick from it and install the OS. When I use the OI text installer the result

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-07 Thread Aurélien Larcher
On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 6:23 PM Andreas Wacknitz wrote: > Am 07.01.21 um 18:08 schrieb Guenther Alka: > > Not broken as it never worked > > (multi purpose Illumos Unix with a stable/long term stable/newest beta > > base). > > > > OI currently: always and only newest beta based > > so Yes: (maybe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-07 Thread Till Wegmueller
So, to that question a bit of Background. OmniOS is more than just illumos and omni repo. It's also kayak and all their Projects. That is a huge amount of projects. There was work to allow installation of omnios illumos-gate instead of illumos-gate by simply switching packages. That can work,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-07 Thread Nona Hansel
delevopers. Nona -- Původní e-mail -- Od: Guenther Alka Komu: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Datum: 7. 1. 2021 18:53:56 Předmět: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS) "I also own a project with mainly me and a few contributors

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-07 Thread Guenther Alka
I also own a project with mainly me and a few contributors (napp-it). It's not the number of devs but the spirit to do something that matters. You exactly point to the essential point. With not enough people working on something not paid for doing without hope and energy your only choices are

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-07 Thread Guenther Alka
I forgot What is the problem to install either pure Illumos or a Illumos freeze from OmniOS and use the OI repository additional to the core OmniOS and OmniOS extra repository to use the additional options? Where are the problems? Is this only to have same packages in different repositories

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-07 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Am 07.01.21 um 18:08 schrieb Guenther Alka: Not broken as it never worked (multi purpose Illumos Unix with a stable/long term stable/newest beta base). OI currently: always and only newest beta based so Yes: (maybe easy to say as I cannot help to do the needed work - unsure about the needed

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-07 Thread Guenther Alka
Not broken as it never worked (multi purpose Illumos Unix with a stable/long term stable/newest beta base). OI currently: always and only newest beta based so Yes: (maybe easy to say as I cannot help to do the needed work - unsure about the needed efforts) When I remember the first steps of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-07 Thread Chris
On 2021-01-07 06:02, Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss wrote: Well spoken,, Gea! I am in favour of consolidating the OpenSolarish community. If merging would reinvogarate interest and momentum, it can be worth it. And you guys have been discussing this merging for ages, it is your old idea

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-07 Thread Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss
Well spoken,, Gea! I am in favour of consolidating the OpenSolarish community. If merging would reinvogarate interest and momentum, it can be worth it. And you guys have been discussing this merging for ages, it is your old idea taken up again. It seems that several of you think this is the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-06 Thread Guenther Alka
cc:omnios-discuss I am a bit late to this discussion. The same discussion happened when OmniTi closed OmniOS and OmniOS CE started. I was strongly in favour to combine OmniOS and OI efforts then as both are too small on their own to be relevant beside to a niche market each but it did not

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-06 Thread Chris
On 2021-01-06 12:19, Aurélien Larcher wrote: On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 8:58 PM Jim Klimov wrote: On January 6, 2021 4:33:23 PM UTC, Apostolos Syropoulos < asyropou...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >>Is IDLE packaged by OI? Missing a dependency then? > >This means that IDLE should be packaged with the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-06 Thread Aurélien Larcher
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 8:58 PM Jim Klimov wrote: > On January 6, 2021 4:33:23 PM UTC, Apostolos Syropoulos < > asyropou...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > >>Is IDLE packaged by OI? Missing a dependency then? > > > >This means that IDLE should be packaged with the tkinter? > >A.s. >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-06 Thread Jim Klimov
On January 6, 2021 4:33:23 PM UTC, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > >>Is IDLE packaged by OI? Missing a dependency then? > >This means that IDLE should be packaged with the tkinter? >A.s. >-- >Apostolos Syropoulos >Xanthi, Greece Rather, IF it is packaged, then its IPS metadata

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-06 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Is IDLE packaged by OI? Missing a dependency then? This means that IDLE should be packaged with the tkinter? A.s. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-05 Thread Jim Klimov
On January 5, 2021 4:58:46 PM UTC, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: >>> $ pkg list -a|grep tkinter-37 >>> library/python/tkinter-37 3.7.7-2020.0.1.1 >>You omitted the most important column: it should be i-- and not --- > >Today I installed the missing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-05 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Am 05.01.21 um 17:58 schrieb Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss: $ pkg list -a|grep tkinter-37 library/python/tkinter-37 3.7.7-2020.0.1.1 You omitted the most important column: it should be i-- and not --- Today I installed the missing package and IDLE is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-05 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>> $ pkg list -a|grep tkinter-37 >> library/python/tkinter-37 3.7.7-2020.0.1.1 >You omitted the most important column: it should be i-- and not --- Today I installed the missing package and IDLE is working just fine. BTW, this is a piece of information that should be added

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-04 Thread Jason Martin
Maybe web developers or headless machines without X do not need it? ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 1/4/21 2:11 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: OK I got it but still the question is: Why tkinteris a separate package? IMHO, it makes nosense to have as a separate package. Afterall it is part of the core python distribution. Because some people want to install

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
OK I got it but still the question is: Why tkinteris a separate package? IMHO, it makes nosense to have as a separate package. Afterall it is part of the core python distribution. AS Στάλθηκε από το Ταχυδρομείο Yahoo σε Android Στις Δευ, 4 Ιαν, 2021 στις 22:39, ο χρήστηςAndreas Wacknitz

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-04 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Am 04.01.21 um 18:44 schrieb Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss: Make sure you have installed tkinter-37: $  pkg list -a|grep tkinter-37 library/python/tkinter-37 (openindiana.org) 3.7.7-2020.0.1.1   i-- For me it works as expected. Well the package is installed but idle3.7

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Make sure you have installed tkinter-37: >$  pkg list -a|grep tkinter-37 >library/python/tkinter-37 (openindiana.org) 3.7.7-2020.0.1.1   i-- > >For me it works as expected. Well the package is installed but idle3.7 is not working: $ pkg list -a|grep tkinter-37 library/python/tkinter-37  

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-04 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Am 04.01.21 um 17:10 schrieb Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss: On Monday, January 4, 2021, 5:00:08 PM GMT+2, Aurélien Larcher wrote: I am just a bit concerned that with the current model some things may diverge too much: last time I worked on updating Python 3.7 and 3.8 test

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
On Monday, January 4, 2021, 5:00:08 PM GMT+2, Aurélien Larcher wrote: >I am just a bit concerned that with the current model some things may >diverge too much: last time I worked on updating Python 3.7 and 3.8 test >suite results looked very different on OmniOS and OI. >Also the merge commit

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-04 Thread Aurélien Larcher
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 10:05 PM Chris wrote: > On 2020-12-31 04:25, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: > > Am 30.12.20 um 21:14 schrieb Andreas Wacknitz: > >> Am 30.12.20 um 19:10 schrieb Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss: > >>> I have a problem with my mail list settings, so I write one single > >>>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2020-12-31 Thread Chris
On 2020-12-31 04:25, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: Am 30.12.20 um 21:14 schrieb Andreas Wacknitz: Am 30.12.20 um 19:10 schrieb Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss:   I have a problem with my mail list settings, so I write one single reply, adressing three different persons. I am a newbie to the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2020-12-31 Thread Jason Martin
I have to say the build and package environment is one of the best in open source but takes some time to learn. It is really worth it though. I find it the best laid out one for the casual user who wants his own packages. I would use more but my machines are old and slow. There were and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2020-12-31 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Am 30.12.20 um 21:14 schrieb Andreas Wacknitz: Am 30.12.20 um 19:10 schrieb Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss:   I have a problem with my mail list settings, so I write one single reply, adressing three different persons. I am a newbie to the OpenSolarish scene, so I dont know much about it,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2020-12-31 Thread Andy Fiddaman
On Wed, 30 Dec 2020, Aur?lien Larcher wrote: ; I think merging both makes sense to gain momentum and stopping reinventing ; the wheel given the number of developers (us pulling from OmniOS and ; Dominik packaging stuff that we already have). I wasn't originally subscribed to this list but I've

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2020-12-31 Thread Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss
Guys, my apologies for yahoo mail eliminating the new lines and make a huge Wall of Text. I always paragraph well, but yahoo messes everything up. I will try to separate paragraphs with dots now.  . @Peter Tribble,You have a point in that it is easier for a lone developer to do what he wants,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2020-12-30 Thread Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss
On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 at 13:00, Peter Tribble wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 11:39 AM Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss < > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > > A question. I am sure this has been discussed before, but maybe it is time > > to update the discussion? :) > > As I have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2020-12-30 Thread Peter Tribble
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 11:39 AM Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > A question. I am sure this has been discussed before, but maybe it is time > to update the discussion? :) > As I have understood it, OmniOS is a robust server OS with no good

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2020-12-30 Thread Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss
@Andreas,>Adding a desktop on top of OmniOSce is A LOT OF WORK. Maintaining a >desktop is quite more complex than focussing on the server aspects of an >OS alone. The amount of work that is already done >for OI (many parts of it inherited from OpenSolaris) is tremendous. If >"we" start this

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2020-12-30 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Am 30.12.20 um 19:10 schrieb Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss: I have a problem with my mail list settings, so I write one single reply, adressing three different persons. I am a newbie to the OpenSolarish scene, so I dont know much about it, or who the people we should talk to, though. :)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2020-12-30 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 30 Dec 2020, Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss wrote: I bet many more than I, would be very excited in one unified illumos distro where we merge OmniOS and OI. I understand there is lot of prestige involved, but if we dont do want OpenSolaris to diminish and die to Linux, we all

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2020-12-30 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Am 30.12.20 um 12:38 schrieb Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss: A question. I am sure this has been discussed before, but maybe it is time to update the discussion? :) As I have understood it, OmniOS is a robust server OS with no good desktop environment. It is possible to install X11,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2020-12-30 Thread Aurélien Larcher
This is something that was discussed in the past when OmniOSCE was created but back then there was a focus on providing continuity of releases and too few people: the goal for to have a true reference distribution. Back then Adam and I had suggested to merge the distributions given the size of

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2020-12-30 Thread Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss
A question. I am sure this has been discussed before, but maybe it is time to update the discussion? :) As I have understood it, OmniOS is a robust server OS with no good desktop environment. It is possible to install X11,