Comment on The OpenIndiana communityparentComments−onetwothreefour14yThe Solaris kernel isn't great. The only reason anyone's using Illumos based stuff is ZFS and possibly dtrace.−quesera14yFreeBSD 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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The Solaris kernel isn't great. The only reason anyone's using Illumos based stuff is ZFS and possibly dtrace.
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.