On 5 September 2017 at 12:37, Udo Grabowski (IMK) <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 05/09/2017 12:45, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > >> The real concern is...in the short or long period, how much support for >> Solaris kernels can we expect from third parties such VMware? >> They may completely remove the "Oracle Solaris 11 64bit" from the list of >> supported VMs. >> This may happen elsewhere, as happened recently at MongoDB. >> This may hurt the illumos ecosystem in the short/long term. >> What do you think? >> Sonicle S.r.l. >> >> > I think we will this see very quickly, all third-party vendors > will cease Solaris SPARC and x86 support on short notice, especially > NVIDIA, which will practically end the possibility to use any illumos > derivative on the desktop on a midterm timescale. Since we as a > research institute depend on third-party support this will more > sooner than later force us to move to Linux, regardless if we want > this or not. So reality will terminate OI, only specialized use in > the storage domain may survive some time, but also there driver > support will sooner or later completely evaporate. > -- > Dr.Udo Grabowski Inst.f.Meteorology & Climate Research IMK-ASF-SAT > http://www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/sat.php > KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology http://www.kit.edu > Postfach 3640,76021 Karlsruhe,Germany T:(+49)721 608-26026 F:-926026 > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > Doesn't have to be Linux, you could go the BSD route. Personally, I'm hoping the BSD projects get some love from the Solaris engineers should this come to pass. _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
