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Over illumos?

• gtirloni 9y ago
  I haven't followed Illumos lately. At the time we evaluated it and its community and it didn't seem worth it (keep in mind we were deeply depressed about anything Solaris). Maybe it's thriving today? I wouldn't know. I started using FreeBSD around 2000-2001 and so there's a personal bias there too.
  • cyphar 9y ago
    From what I've heard, illumos has quite a strong community now. The events surrounding OpenSolaris caused an exodus from Oracle, and everyone landed either in illumos or in FreeBSD. These days development of ZFS is done as OpenZFS with members of FreeBSD, illumos and ZoL. DTrace development mostly happens in illumos. All of the above comes from second-hand experience based on what I've heard from the folks at Joyent (now part of Samsung) such as bcantrill. I have only played with FreeBSD and illumos and read through some of the code.