[illumos-Discuss] introduction

[Blake]

This makes sense.  I'm excited to see what comes of this - even in the
'healthy' OpenSolaris days I felt there was a lack of true community.
Now I feel like a new chapter is being written.

Blake



On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Dmitry Yusupov <dmitry at nexenta.com> wrote:
> Hi Blake,
>
> according to Illumos presentation, its goal is to be a code consolidation,
> similar to kernel.org, not a distribution.
>
> Distribution is usually includes end user support features like: software
> repositories, user support forums, IRC channels, etc.
>
> Thanks to multi-packaging support (RPM, APT, IPS and SVR4) we are hoping
> community will build various distributions based on Illumos code pretty
> soon.
>
> Having said that, we potentially will be releasing environment bootstrapping
> ISO, just as minimalistic as possible.
>
> On 08/05/2010 08:36 AM, Blake wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>     I was a fairly active member of the OpenSolaris community (until
>> it got ignored by Oracle).  I'm pleased to see the Illumos project
>> spring up to fill the void.
>>
>>    Are there any plans to release a bootable Illumos .iso?  I think
>> such a thing would be a great tool to encourage interest in the
>> community.
>>
>>
>> best,
>> Blake
>>
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