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I was running OpenIndiana for awhile at home before I just got tired of trying to hack together a bunch of patches. The problem with having a project that is ps

I was running OpenIndiana for awhile at home before I just got tired of trying to hack together a bunch of patches. The problem with having a project that is pseudo OSS is that you can never actually use it seriously, its never reliable and for the most part its going to end in slow quiet death. In my opinion there are a were only a handful of reasons to use Solaris: Oracle, SPARC, ZFS and dtrace. The only reason to use it nowadays is because you can't scale x86 and need big iron for Oracle et al.

dmpk2k 14y ago
Unrelated to the topic at hand, but I've been happy with SmartOS. It's firmly and solely an OSS server OS, it's easy to use, many of the uglier Solaris legacy bits have been sanded off, and it has a decent package system (pkgsrc). My earlier experiences with Solaris and OpenSolaris were mixed. SmartOS has been uniformly positive. Perhaps give it a try, although be aware that it (like everything illumos) is picky about the hardware.