16 Mar
2023
16 Mar
'23
5:44 a.m.
Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> writes:
[snip]
The successor code base of OpenIndiana which forked
from OpenSolaris which
was System Vr4 plus a bunch... And that's open... illumos is still using
that for its distribution... They'd have been totally dead, imho, were it
not for OpenZFS using illumos for so long as the reference platform (that's
changed, so now Linux and FreeBSD are the reference platforms, though one
of those two is more equal than the other).
[snip]
SmartOS uses Illumos as upstream and was used by Joyent Inc. until last
year when Joyent sold that part of the buiness to MNX. It is a very
real thing being used as a cloud container like OS. See
https://www.tritondatacenter.com/smartos for more info... The last
$DAYJOB I had for a pretty big retail company used it for its private,
in house cloud. It is all open source, as it is based upon OpenSolaris
(SVR4ish) at its core but it has been mentioned that isn't quite SVR2
for the Vax.
--
Brad Spencer - brad(a)anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org