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After OpenSolaris OS/Net kernel development was closed, 3 forks were made: Illumos, SchilliX-ON and Stormix (sadly, they all seem quite inactive). There are 3

After OpenSolaris OS/Net kernel development was closed, 3 forks were made: Illumos, SchilliX-ON and Stormix (sadly, they all seem quite inactive). There are 3 distributions based on the first one: OpenIndiana, Nexenta and SmartOS. There is also SchilliX (based on SchilliX-ON) and StromOS (based on Stormix). This is just based on my existing knowledge, so there might be more forks and/or distributions out there.

binarycrusader 15y ago
Both IllumOS and OpenIndiana are quite active (which shouldn't be surprising since the latter relies on the former).
- piotrSikora 15y ago
  Is it, really? According to GitHub's commit history, there were 297 commits made since onnv_147, so ~1 commit/day. Prior to the fork, OpenSolaris was getting ~10 commits/day. To put this into perspective, there were over 8000 commits made to OpenBSD in the same time-frame. I won't even try to compare this with FreeBSD or Linux... Don't get me wrong, I love the effort, but at the same time I feel like there wasn't any real progress made since the project's inception.
  - binarycrusader 15y ago
    It depends on your definition of active. As an open source project, it's definitely active. Is it as active as the actual Solaris codebase? No. But it has also significantly less developers working on it.
    - piotrSikora 15y ago
      Well, it's active as in "not dead", but not as in "actively developed operating system". I'm aware of the difference in the number of developers, but you have to agree that there are hardly any user-visible changes since onnv_147.
      - binarycrusader 15y ago
        Uh, no, it is definitely an "actively developed operating system". As for user visible, actually, yes, changes made to dtrace recently for example. Sparse zones as another example, and so on. Remember that Solaris (and its derivatives, unlike Linux) is userland + kernel -- not just the kernel. So changes in userland count in my opinion when considering "actively developed operating system".
        piotrSikora 15y ago
        Apparently our definitions vary a bit ;) > As for user visible, actually, yes, changes made to dtrace recently for example. > Sparse zones as another example, and so on. Those changes came from SmartOS/Joyent and were not made by the IllumOS developers. Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate their work, but I've already lost hope with IllumOS/OpenIndiana... Fortunately Joyent stepped in, so I hope that things will speed-up a bit now :)
sriramnrn 15y ago
There's also Belenix, which was the second distro after Schillix, and the first full fledged desktop distro - both based on the opensolaris ON codebase. Work on Belenix had paused until recently since the active developers got busy with their jobs. I've now begun work on Belenix again. See here for status : http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/belenix-discuss/2011-July/001510.html http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/belenix-discuss/2011-J... We've decided to use rpm5 and the smart package manager. See http://www.belenix.org/content/Proposal-use-rpm5-package-format-and-smart-package-manager http://www.belenix.org/content/Proposal-use-rpm5-package-for... There are things to set in place (updated website, upload rpm5, createrepo and smart for developers to download and use) before we open up for more developers. At the moment, I'm testing my rpm5 and smart package manager work on a fresh boot environment, and hope to have something available for download by Monday. So, there is active development happening in the opensolaris community, on a variety of fronts.

binarycrusader 15y ago

Both IllumOS and OpenIndiana are quite active (which shouldn't be surprising since the latter relies on the former).

piotrSikora 15y ago
Is it, really? According to GitHub's commit history, there were 297 commits made since onnv_147, so ~1 commit/day. Prior to the fork, OpenSolaris was getting ~10 commits/day. To put this into perspective, there were over 8000 commits made to OpenBSD in the same time-frame. I won't even try to compare this with FreeBSD or Linux... Don't get me wrong, I love the effort, but at the same time I feel like there wasn't any real progress made since the project's inception.
- binarycrusader 15y ago
  It depends on your definition of active. As an open source project, it's definitely active. Is it as active as the actual Solaris codebase? No. But it has also significantly less developers working on it.
  - piotrSikora 15y ago
    Well, it's active as in "not dead", but not as in "actively developed operating system". I'm aware of the difference in the number of developers, but you have to agree that there are hardly any user-visible changes since onnv_147.
    - binarycrusader 15y ago
      Uh, no, it is definitely an "actively developed operating system". As for user visible, actually, yes, changes made to dtrace recently for example. Sparse zones as another example, and so on. Remember that Solaris (and its derivatives, unlike Linux) is userland + kernel -- not just the kernel. So changes in userland count in my opinion when considering "actively developed operating system".
      - piotrSikora 15y ago
        Apparently our definitions vary a bit ;) > As for user visible, actually, yes, changes made to dtrace recently for example. > Sparse zones as another example, and so on. Those changes came from SmartOS/Joyent and were not made by the IllumOS developers. Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate their work, but I've already lost hope with IllumOS/OpenIndiana... Fortunately Joyent stepped in, so I hope that things will speed-up a bit now :)

sriramnrn 15y ago

There's also Belenix, which was the second distro after Schillix, and the first full fledged desktop distro - both based on the opensolaris ON codebase. Work on Belenix had paused until recently since the active developers got busy with their jobs. I've now begun work on Belenix again. See here for status : http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/belenix-discuss/2011-July/001510.html http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/belenix-discuss/2011-J... We've decided to use rpm5 and the smart package manager. See http://www.belenix.org/content/Proposal-use-rpm5-package-format-and-smart-package-manager http://www.belenix.org/content/Proposal-use-rpm5-package-for... There are things to set in place (updated website, upload rpm5, createrepo and smart for developers to download and use) before we open up for more developers. At the moment, I'm testing my rpm5 and smart package manager work on a fresh boot environment, and hope to have something available for download by Monday. So, there is active development happening in the opensolaris community, on a variety of fronts.