# [OmniOS-discuss] Bug ?

Tobias Oetiker tobi at oetiker.ch
Sun Jul 2 11:09:39 UTC 2017

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    ----- On Jul 2, 2017, at 12:09 PM, Andy Fiddaman omnios at citrus-it.net wrote:

    > On Thu, 29 Jun 2017, Guenther Alka wrote:
    >
    > ; Unless there are news regarding OmniOS my stance is
    > ;
    > ; - OmniOS 151022 is a freeze of current Illumos + LX. At the moment it is the
    > ; most stable and feature rich free Illumos general use server distribution with
    > ; the addition LX zones. As there is no repo and development outside OmniTi it
    > ; is freezed. There are no signs from OmniTi to add any fixes. As packages are
    > ; signed it does not work outside OmniTi. As OmniOS 151023 is identical without
    > ; signed packages a community based repo based on it with possible fixes as
    > ; 151022ce (community edition) is a suggestion (but sadly I am not an OS
    > ; developer).
    >
    > Momentum does appear to be lacking unfortunately. Here at Citrus we have
    > forked the OmniOS repositories and are continuing to maintain them for
    > internal use while we consider options.
    >
    > We have kept omnios-build packages up-to-date where there are security
    > fixes (two Bind updates, 7-zip CVE patch, OpenSSL [IIRC]) and backported a
    > handful of illumos changes that are relevant to us. We can keep going like
    > this for a good while and I still hope that a community OmniOS will get
    > going (we've offered to contribute engineering resource as have others)
    > and we can make the switch.
    >
    > Since we use LX zones to an extent, SmartOS is the other route we are
    > evaluating at the moment.
    >

    not to join forces seem to be a pitty ... how about hosting that fork on
    https://github.com/omniosorg and starting to accept PRs there

    at least from what I can see there is a total lack of communication from omniti
    regarding how they envision that transition of omnios to community maintainership

    so I guess we have to take the initiative.

    I have had a look at smartos, for kvm and lx it would be great but it seems that serving smb, nfs and iscsi
    is not a focus on joyents side (but maybe I have just not looked correctly).

    there is a gitter chat associated with the github omniosorg repo
    https://gitter.im/omniosorg/Lobby

    cheers
    tobi

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