Guido wrote > You seem to have a misconception of how the OI project operates. > The current situation is that the largest part of maintenance > work for all consolidations except ON is still done by Oracle > although consolidation maintainers add fixes on top of that where > they deem it necessary. And we might take advantage of that as long > as it is feasible. Even if those consolidations aren't what is best for OI?
At moment it's very hard to use OI in production because the consolidations bring in lots of unnecessary packages and we haven't the resources to update critical security of all those packages. To me, long term route should be to bring the base consolidations OI requires under OI control (likely a small set of server based ones), support those 100% and have optional less supported ones from the rest of the consolidations from Oracle and other sources. However as the old saying goes, easier said than done :) I've already volunteered to work on minimal JeOS/debootstrap level of OI, so I guess I'll find out how much work is involved heh At heart I guess it's what OI is and wants to be, is it a free clone of Oracle Solaris or is it a independent OS, just with the Sun heritage? This I suspect is much easier for me, as I have no history with Sun or Oracle (Been 20 years since I used a Sun OS and they aren't fond memories). I just see OI as an awesome engineered Unix OS that I prefer over Linux or BSD for lots of reason that I'm sure most on this list would agree with, its heritage is just that for me, a past with good and bad points but control of its destiny should be its own. Going back to the original proposal, a stable cut focused OI with security and critical updates is part of building that destiny. It's a stake in the ground, that illumos and OI are an OS you can use now and in the future regardless of what happens outside its control. It may not be, at this stage, everything to all, *but* it as a real thing, that people can use as a production server OS. Bye, Deano _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
