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by dijit 865 days ago
Support. (Like, official vendor support & hardware support)

It's really nice to type a command and see a CLI representation of where the drives are physically located on your system for example.

All the IllumOS distributions are defunct (SmartOS hasn't seen a release since 2020 and that's the most recent) aside from OpenIndiana, which I haven't looked at in a long time.

*EDIT:* Seems OpenIndiana is not binary compatible due to using glibc over Sun Studios libc. Which might prevent some people from switching.
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unethical_ban 865 days ago
https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/sm...

SmartOS is used by Triton, and still is developed, to some extent.

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yjftsjthsd-h 865 days ago
> All the IllumOS distributions are defunct (SmartOS hasn't seen a release since 2020 and that's the most recent) aside from OpenIndiana, which I haven't looked at in a long time.

Er, what?

Tribblix 0m33 2023-12-14 https://tribblix.blogspot.com/2023/12/changes-in-0m33-prerel...

OmniOS CE r151048 2023-11-06 https://omnios.org/article/r48.html

SmartOS 20240125T000404Z 2024-01-25 https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/sm...

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dijit 865 days ago
noghtly builds are not releases
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yjftsjthsd-h 865 days ago
Where are you seeing nightlies? The OmniOS release notes I linked open with

> On the 6th of November 2023, the OmniOSce Association has released a new stable version of OmniOS

And the tribblix release doesn't look like a nightly.

The SmartOS one... might be? But AFAICT it's just rolling release.

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