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Serious question, I thought OpenIndiana was dead? I've tried OmniOS, saw that it had a massive memory leak in the base install, and determined it wasn't for me

Serious question, I thought OpenIndiana was dead? I've tried OmniOS, saw that it had a massive memory leak in the base install, and determined it wasn't for me. Is there any good alternative of Solaris lineage left? (That doesn't involve selling your soul to Oracle.)

yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
> Serious question, I thought OpenIndiana was dead? Commit history says it's alive. > Is there any good alternative of Solaris lineage left? (That doesn't involve selling your soul to Oracle.) I mean, this is it I'd think. There are other illumos distros, but this is the one most shaped like Solaris.
jasoneckert 3y ago
I don't think any mainstream OS ever dies - instead, they often enter the hobbyist realm. Amiga OS and VMS are still actively developed this purpose (just not something you'd use in production). I imagine it's the same for OpenIndiana as Solaris had a large user base back in the day.
- Aaron2222 3y ago
  OpenVMS[0] is very much primarily a commercial product that people use in production. The hobbyist program is secondary to that. [0]: https://vmssoftware.com https://vmssoftware.com
alberth 3y ago
Oxide Computer uses it, I think https://oxide.computer/ https://oxide.computer/
- bri3d 3y ago
  Their distribution is called Helios and is based on OmniOS. I think they were supposed to make it more suitable for consumer use / home install at some point - the package repository is public if you want to try to cobble it together on your own.
  - g-b-r 3y ago
    Actually several docs in their repositories point to https://github.com/oxidecomputer/helios https://github.com/oxidecomputer/helios which... doesn't exist?? It does seem derived (rather than based) from OmniOS indeed, so little to do with OpenIndiana (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33341193 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33341193)
    - steveklabnik 3y ago
      It's still private. I believe this is a case of "just gotta open it," but that takes some work (and I am not sure, I don't know all the details yet, I could be wrong). I have it on my to-do list to try and investigate this and get it done sometime soon, we'll see.
      - g-b-r 3y ago
        Hmm ok thanks!! Yes I think a lot of people are very curious to get a peek, especially if they can't afford an actual oxide ;)
- hdjrbrbn 3y ago
  Oxide made of ex-joyent (smartos) people, some of which were also ex-sun people (Bryan Cantril for example)
spicykraken 3y ago
SmartOS is still going strong with bi-weekly releases: https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20231228T001409Z https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/sm...
- mgoetzke 3y ago
  And we use it in production for critical workloads and its fantastic :)
LargoLasskhyfv 3y ago
http://tribblix.org/ http://tribblix.org/ ?

yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago

> Serious question, I thought OpenIndiana was dead? Commit history says it's alive. > Is there any good alternative of Solaris lineage left? (That doesn't involve selling your soul to Oracle.) I mean, this is it I'd think. There are other illumos distros, but this is the one most shaped like Solaris.

jasoneckert 3y ago

I don't think any mainstream OS ever dies - instead, they often enter the hobbyist realm. Amiga OS and VMS are still actively developed this purpose (just not something you'd use in production). I imagine it's the same for OpenIndiana as Solaris had a large user base back in the day.

Aaron2222 3y ago
OpenVMS[0] is very much primarily a commercial product that people use in production. The hobbyist program is secondary to that. [0]: https://vmssoftware.com https://vmssoftware.com

alberth 3y ago

Oxide Computer uses it, I think https://oxide.computer/ https://oxide.computer/

bri3d 3y ago
Their distribution is called Helios and is based on OmniOS. I think they were supposed to make it more suitable for consumer use / home install at some point - the package repository is public if you want to try to cobble it together on your own.
- g-b-r 3y ago
  Actually several docs in their repositories point to https://github.com/oxidecomputer/helios https://github.com/oxidecomputer/helios which... doesn't exist?? It does seem derived (rather than based) from OmniOS indeed, so little to do with OpenIndiana (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33341193 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33341193)
  - steveklabnik 3y ago
    It's still private. I believe this is a case of "just gotta open it," but that takes some work (and I am not sure, I don't know all the details yet, I could be wrong). I have it on my to-do list to try and investigate this and get it done sometime soon, we'll see.
    - g-b-r 3y ago
      Hmm ok thanks!! Yes I think a lot of people are very curious to get a peek, especially if they can't afford an actual oxide ;)
hdjrbrbn 3y ago
Oxide made of ex-joyent (smartos) people, some of which were also ex-sun people (Bryan Cantril for example)

spicykraken 3y ago

SmartOS is still going strong with bi-weekly releases: https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20231228T001409Z https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/sm...

mgoetzke 3y ago
And we use it in production for critical workloads and its fantastic :)

LargoLasskhyfv 3y ago

http://tribblix.org/ http://tribblix.org/ ?