`It is my impression that OmniOS is meant to be a rock-solid server OS, so getting the latest and greatest "fun" stuff is probably less important than getting things that are stable. Joyent has the benefit of knowing where and how they are going to deploy SmartOS, so some features they add are meant more for that environment, rather than everyone else. I personally use SmartOS and OmniOS in a professional sense and although SmartOS has some really amazing features which make it an amazing hypervisor, it also seems to ship more bugs each release than I would hope for from a server OS. I've been bit many times with features that clearly don't work and appear to not even be tested in the slightest. Again, I use SmartOS and like it, and I can't speak for OmniTI, but from my point of view, I'm glad OmniOS is based on illumos-gate and not illumos-joyent.<div>
<br></div><div>-Jared</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Andrzej Szeszo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aszeszo@gmail.com" target="_blank">aszeszo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi All<br>
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Was illumos-joyent ever considered as a base for OmniOS? All the fun stuff seems to appear there first.<br>
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I think with some minor tweaks it could be used as a replacement for the upstream illumos-gate based tree.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Andrzej<br>
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