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Are there any such advantages that you can't get with illumos?
by josephcsible 3y ago
Are there any such advantages that you can't get with illumos?
- dijit 3y agoSupport. (Like, official vendor support & hardware support) It's really nice to type a command and see a CLI representation of where the drives are physically located on your system for example. All the IllumOS distributions are defunct (SmartOS hasn't seen a release since 2020 and that's the most recent) aside from OpenIndiana, which I haven't looked at in a long time. *EDIT:* Seems OpenIndiana is not binary compatible due to using glibc over Sun Studios libc. Which might prevent some people from switching.
- unethical_ban 3y agohttps://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20240125T000404Z https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/sm... SmartOS is used by Triton, and still is developed, to some extent.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago> All the IllumOS distributions are defunct (SmartOS hasn't seen a release since 2020 and that's the most recent) aside from OpenIndiana, which I haven't looked at in a long time. Er, what? Tribblix 0m33 2023-12-14 https://tribblix.blogspot.com/2023/12/changes-in-0m33-prerelease.html https://tribblix.blogspot.com/2023/12/changes-in-0m33-prerel... OmniOS CE r151048 2023-11-06 https://omnios.org/article/r48.html https://omnios.org/article/r48.html SmartOS 20240125T000404Z 2024-01-25 https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20240125T000404Z https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/sm...
- dijit 3y agonoghtly builds are not releases
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoWhere are you seeing nightlies? The OmniOS release notes I linked open with > On the 6th of November 2023, the OmniOSce Association has released a new stable version of OmniOS And the tribblix release doesn't look like a nightly. The SmartOS one... might be? But AFAICT it's just rolling release.