OmniOS: Illumos-based OS from OmniTI

Re:OmniOS: Illumos-based OS from OmniTI by wmf on Saturday April 14, 2012 @11:07PM (#3842600)

You've explained who Solaris is for, but if you want Solaris why would you want to run a fork of a fork of Solaris? It's still not clear what value this adds relative to Illumos.

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Re:OmniOS: Illumos-based OS from OmniTI by patrickgzill on Saturday April 14, 2012 @11:40PM (#3842658)

For one, KVM virtualization does not run on Illumos, nor Solaris.

Second, Oracle is encumbering Solaris with a not-nice license. I haven't followed the latest developments because I no longer care, since I will never use a non-free OS.

Whether you meant to ask, "Why Illumos over Solaris" or "Why SmartOS or OmniOS over Illumos?" I think I have answered your question :-)

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Re:OmniOS: Illumos-based OS from OmniTI by X-Istence on Sunday April 15, 2012 @12:25AM (#3842750)

KVM virtualization has been added back to Illumos and is also available from Joyent as SmartOS:

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2011/08/15/kvm-on-illumos/

Hopefully the next release of OpenIndiana will add support for it as well, seeing how they also use the Illumos kernel.

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Re:OmniOS: Illumos-based OS from OmniTI by dmpk2k on Sunday April 15, 2012 @06:02PM (#3844921)

illumos is free and (most importantly) open source. Running a closed OS and binaries on a production server isn't the most foolish idea I've heard, but it's in the running.

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