Hi Seth, I think that Joerg is quite right, we need to place a bit of organization around it and the work must be done by an external coordinator, not a developer tied to a single distribution. Some key contributing distributions may include: - Belenix, mentioned on the list that they were resuming development cycles in 2013. I have not seen much activity since May 2013. Sometimes, affiliated members appear on the Illumos/OpenIndiana lists. - Tribblix has been active on the list, re-adding some features such as Sparse Zones. (We use this feature aggressively under Solaris 10 and have been waiting for it to re-appear under OpenSolaris.) - DilOS has been active on the list, refreshing early features from OpenSolaris such as Xen. It appears they were open to host OpenSXCE. - OpenSXCE had done some great work, refreshing capabilities from OpenSolaris, such as SPARC. (Looks pretty good, we have been testing.)
I made some effort to pull together distros for better cooperation. Some of my thoughts were included in the following presentation. http://svr4.blogspot.com/ There are hidden pages behind this lonely looking svr4 blog. It was prepped for a release, but enough progress to make Illumos more ISV, Carrier, and Managed Service Provider friendly did not happen. The window of opportunity for some members in the community to earn a living on 3 new verticals and diversify from cloud and storage silo had closed... and so did the time I had to invest in the community. I am interested in collaboration, but my time is more limited, until we can make some serious progress in diversifying, so this product can become more appealing to new market verticals. With 3 new market verticals, each earning about $333K/year, new community members could probably become compensated contributors, without internally competing against other existing founding contributors, and the overall pie could grow. There are probably a 4th and 5th market vertical that can be approached, with Oracle abandoning other markets, recently. This could bring the cooperative effort down to multiple revenue streams of $250K/year or even $200K/year to be distributed among community members. If the various non-commercial distro's could come together with a little organization and a single (functioning) network packaging forum, this could be beneficial for a bunch of community members... not to mention, that I might not have to migrate a bunch of my systems to Linux or Windows, but that number shrinks daily. :-( Thanks, David Halko http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos <[email protected]> wrote: > I am with you when you say that people should collaborate. Although, > > >> >>- IPS must not be the only packaging >> > > is quite reasonable. I don't undestand why > > >>- /usr/gnu must not be the default first entry in PATH >> >>- /sbin/sh may be a link to the Bourne Shell >> > > Bash is great and fortunately or unfortunately most applications > expect bash and not Bourne shell. Also, I have compiled a number of > > important tools and all expect the GNU ls, GNU ld, etc. For starters > OpenOffice/LibreOffice expect GNU tools. In addition, since it is > > not trivial to maintain 'ld' and 'as' why not adopting the GNU > equivalents and forget about the Solaris things. And of course, > sooner or later people should choose to use either GCC or LLVM > > as the official compiler. Sun Studio is closed source and not > > actively maintained. > > A.S. > > > ---------------------- > Apostolos Syropoulos > Xanthi, Greece > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175845-b97465aa > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
