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It is really confusing and it seems like they all share the same illumos as their common upstream. [0] I wonder what kind of 'scope' illumos has in comparison t
by hs86 8y ago
It is really confusing and it seems like they all share the same illumos as their common upstream. [0]
I wonder what kind of 'scope' illumos has in comparison to the BSDs. The BSD's base installations seem to be complete OSes with some additional bits from 3rd parties but the table at [0] shows that these illumos distros differentiate between the used package manager and even the default userland.
Is there a reason why these Solaris forks tend to use the GNU userland instead of pushing their own like the BSDs?
[0] https://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/Distributions https://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/Distributions
- rhinoceraptor 8y agoIt probably dates back to when Sun hired Ian Murdock to create Project Indiana in 2007. Also, their distinguishing features are all/mostly in the kernel, so there's no point in maintaining the Solaris userland.
- JdeBP 8y agoSchilliX appears to be missing from that list. Jörg Schilling regularly mentions and contrasts the Schily Tools with GNU tools.
- mishac 8y agoI'm not sure if it's still in development. On sourceforge (!) it looks like there are no updates since 2014, and French wikipedia(https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schillix https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schillix) says it's not been updated since 2012.
- JdeBP 8y agoM. Schilling says that it is. You'll have to ask xem for further information. * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=760505445&oldid=760499068 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=760505445&oldid=76... Certainly the Schily Tools bug ticketing system has seen activity within the last month, and there was a release on 2018-10-30 and one before that on 2018-10-11.