I would recommend Plan C. We've used SmartOS for years, with hundreds of servers as storage backend, serving thousands of Linux/Mac/Windows clients. Joyent has the best talented engineers and they are always willing to help.
By the way, we don't care much about packages, a stable and reliable kernel is our requirement. On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 7:58 AM, Guenther Alka <a...@hfg-gmuend.de> wrote: > *Its time to consider pla**n** B/C ??* > to: omnios-discuss, openindiana-discuss, smartos-discuss > > The announcement of OmniTi to cancel OmniOS from now to then is a real > disaster not only for OmniOS users but for the whole Illumos platform. Many > users who want a free Solaris based OS especially in production > environments selected OmniOS as their preferred Illumos platform mainly > with use cases storage and general server applications. > > The reasons:* OmniOS=**Up to date Illumos* > + commercial support option (although way too expensive) > + own developments like LX zones integration from SmartOS or drivers > + stables/long term stables with very experienced full time staff (thanks > to Dan and Dale again) > > As OmniTi has released a new stable 151022, I/we have some time maybe to > the end of the year unless OmniOS is out of sync with Illumos in a non > tolerable amount. Bugfixes of serious problems may be the case until then > (hope so). > > What are the/my options > > > *Plan A* > Hope for a continuation of OmniOS as a well maintained > community/commercial project with further development, ongoing stables and > bugfixes optionally with some paid contributions under the umbrella of a > firm or at least with some experienced members that were already resonsible > for OmniOS or an Illumos distribution and that can be trusted for next > years. > > While I hope for this, I doubt that this is a serious option. I switched > from OpenIndiana to OmniOS three years ago as the OI community was too weak > and development nearly stalled at that time. I am not interested in a new > weak OmniOS community for a distribution that should be used as a > production system. The OmniOS community will be propably too small forever > as we already have the Illumos community project OpenIndiana nearly > identical to OmniOS from distribution, features and use cases. And a very > important thing: The brand OmniOS has already a very bad name as a > dead/failed project in the press mostly affecting Illumos as well. > > > *Plan B* > OpenIndiana is a quite established community project for an up to date > Illumos distribution. I would say its nearly identical to OmniOS beside the > missing LX improvements from OmniOS but with an additional GUI option. I > hope to see LX zones upstreamed to Illumos. OpenIndiana currently offers a > rolling development of newest Illumos bits with snapshots every 6 months > but without an additional stable repository with backported security fixes. > Every update give you the newest Illumos fixes and features but also the > newest bugs (ongoing dev, unstable). > > If OmniOS has to become a community project, I undoubtly would prefer a > merge of the two distributions up from next releases. OpenIndiana with a > stable repo for every snapshot and with a repo as development path would > give me what was the main advantage of OmniOS beside commercial support. > Access to such a stable repo optionally under an OmniOS brand may be even a > paid (if affordable) option. Such a merge would strengthen Illumos at first > place but also free OpenSource distributions like OmniOS and OpenIndiana. > > > *Plan C* > There is another free Illumos distribution with an enterprise background > suited for datacenter use: SmartOS. It even adds unique Cloud and > virtualisation features like KVM, Solaris zones, Linux zones and Docker > support. As it is running from RAM with everything important on a datapool > it is a very stable/ easy recoverable option but it lacks some features in > the global zone that are required for a storage server. An additional plus > is the pkgin repo with lots of supported long term stable services. > > Using SmartOS would require a mechanism to allow storage services like > SSH, Crossbow, iSCSI, NFS and SMB on the global zone with an option to > save/restore settings from a datapool to be persistent. To be honest, a > SmartOS that is capable to act as a storage appliance would be my dream > option, at least as an additional option. This would require that SmartOS > is not actively hindering this or preferable is helping to implement a > save/restore option for global zone settings&features. > > > *Discuss* > But whatever option is coming, end the Illumos fragmentation for the sake > of one strong free community distribution with a solid number of > contributors and one freely available with a commercial background like > SmartOS/ Samsung owned. > > > Any comments from OmniOS, OI, SmartOS (omnios-discuss, > openindiana-discuss, smartos-discuss) communities? > I have send this to all three lists, so optionally answer all lists > > > best regards > > > Gea/ napp-it.org > > *smartos-discuss* | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25077300-734ee1ca> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
