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Re:The OpenIndiana community by onetwothreefour on Sunday June 24, 2012 @01:20AM (#4152652)
The Solaris kernel isn't great. The only reason anyone's using Illumos based stuff is ZFS and possibly dtrace.
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Re:The OpenIndiana community by quesera on Sunday June 24, 2012 @09:13AM (#4153240)
FreeBSD has good ports of ZFS and Dtrace now.

I still like Solaris for SMF, but I consider the policies of Oracle, and the ...uncertainty... of illumos to be important considerations.

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