Illumos distros?

[Randy DuCharame <ra...@ad5gb.com>]

Greetings,

I was just curious if anyone's been building ATS 10 on any of the 
Illumos distributions? (playing with OpenIndiana, OmniOS here) I've been 
a long time fan of Solaris and used OpenSolaris exclusively for 
everything until Oracle bought Sun and closed up the OpenSolaris 
project, which I also contributed to at the time. I've experienced a 
renewed interest in the OS but find now, as I did then that the open 
source applications built on and for Linux don't necessarily port 
easily, even with GNU tools.  I'm contemplating switching one of my VPS 
systems over to OmniOS so I'll muddle through it.  Was hoping someone 
that's done it already could lop off some of the analysis and R&D.

Many thanks!!

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Randall DuCharme (Radio AD5GB)
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Re: Illumos distros?

[Randy DuCharame <ra...@ad5gb.com>]

On 5/26/2021 10:12 AM, Leif Hedstrom wrote:
>
>> On May 26, 2021, at 4:38 AM, Randy DuCharame <ra...@ad5gb.com> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I was just curious if anyone's been building ATS 10 on any of the Illumos distributions? (playing with OpenIndiana, OmniOS here) I've been a long time fan of Solaris and used OpenSolaris exclusively for everything until Oracle bought Sun and closed up the OpenSolaris project, which I also contributed to at the time. I've experienced a renewed interest in the OS but find now, as I did then that the open source applications built on and for Linux don't necessarily port easily, even with GNU tools.  I'm contemplating switching one of my VPS systems over to OmniOS so I'll muddle through it.  Was hoping someone that's done it already could lop off some of the analysis and R&D.
> It may build, but we’ve officially dropped support for Solaris, as in, we don’t make an effort. If someone wants to take on the support for the platform, I don’t see a reason why we couldn’t continue to support it. But there are currently no active ATS developers supporting Solaris.
>
> — leif

Thanks for the reply sir.  It won't build out of the box that's for 
sure.  I've been tracking changes as I go but if there's no one else but 
me attempting to use it there's probably little value in having 
"official" support for it.  It's just a personal infatuation (the SunOS 
kernel) of mine and really don't see Solaris doing anything but going 
away soon.  Not sure about the Illumos distros (which is what 
OpenSolaris became when the OpenSolaris project closed - to the best of 
my knowledge) so there may be interest.  But I think more likely the 
Illumos usage on the web would be with SmartOS and virtualization with 
Bhyve or ??? and virtual machines running Linux to run ATS and similar 
rather than running a native Illumos compatible build.  I'll continue to 
see if I can get it to build and run I guess.  Not sure how difficult it 
will be so I'm reluctant to throw y hat into the ring and volunteer to 
be a maintainer of the port at this juncture  LOL 😁

Thanks again!!

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Randall DuCharme (Radio AD5GB)
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Re: Illumos distros?

[Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org>]

> On May 26, 2021, at 4:38 AM, Randy DuCharame <ra...@ad5gb.com> wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I was just curious if anyone's been building ATS 10 on any of the Illumos distributions? (playing with OpenIndiana, OmniOS here) I've been a long time fan of Solaris and used OpenSolaris exclusively for everything until Oracle bought Sun and closed up the OpenSolaris project, which I also contributed to at the time. I've experienced a renewed interest in the OS but find now, as I did then that the open source applications built on and for Linux don't necessarily port easily, even with GNU tools.  I'm contemplating switching one of my VPS systems over to OmniOS so I'll muddle through it.  Was hoping someone that's done it already could lop off some of the analysis and R&D.

It may build, but we’ve officially dropped support for Solaris, as in, we don’t make an effort. If someone wants to take on the support for the platform, I don’t see a reason why we couldn’t continue to support it. But there are currently no active ATS developers supporting Solaris.

— leif