Re: Feedback on OpenIndiana ?

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On Friday, August 17, 2012 11:52:48 AM UTC-5, Patrick wrote:
> I am considering deploying a binary only application. I would prefer a posix based OS and I would prefer to keep Linux closed source free.
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> I am looking at the OpenIndiana project:
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> http://wiki.openindiana.org
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> the OI license allows linking with other licenses:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distribution_License
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> Currently there does not appear to be any Ada support.
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> If the OS looks right I might try to port an ada enabled  gcc over, currently their gcc does not have ada support.
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> Any feedback is welcome, thanks-Patrick

There are a lot of variants of the Open Indiana platform.  There is even one or two that'll give you GNU Userspace if you're not quite ready to go all the way over (Nexenta).  Also Joyent has a nice JeOS based version of illumos that they use in production on their cloud stack (SmartOS) [This one takes a little bit to get used too].  Open Indiana is also solid and it is binary compatible with Linux so if something doesn't happen to be on there, it shouldn't be too much of  a hassle to put it on, well using gcc anyway.  If you want to use Sun CC it can be tricky to use that toolchain.  ZFS, DTrace, Zones, Crossbow are all pretty neat tech that's worth checking out.