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Obsolete distribution of OpenSolaris (itself deprecated), later based on Illumos. As noted on
[1], release 0.2 consisted of just three minor patches. The
latest announcement is from 2010. No significant news coverage outside the Solaris community.
Ysangkok (
talk) 10:41, 17 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Nice try.... the latest public activities are rather from Christmas 2016. The latest published release is 0.8 and there are people in the project who of course use the latest state. BTW: SchilliX fixed many problems that are still in Illumos.
Schily (
talk) 11:58, 17 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Note: "It's obsolete" is not a valid reason for deletion. Historical articles are not only accepted, but encouraged on Wikipedia;
notability is not temporary. Build your deletion nominations on the
notability guideline instead. --
intgr[talk] 12:04, 17 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Leaning delete - RS coverage is minimal, and not evidenced; nor is it clear this was ever notable. I'm willing to be convinced, but ... -
David Gerard (
talk) 00:34, 18 January 2017 (UTC)reply
delete I do not see notability. This is a one-man project with no audience. Just look at the source code repository:
[2]... The previous deletion discussion was flawed. This project does not compare to major Linux distributions, but to some obscure one such as
UltraPenguin (Sun port of Linux 2.2 kernel for UltraSPARC). Because nobody uses it. It never was notable in the first place. This is not like
Knoppix which came with magazines to an audience of thousands of users until Ubuntu and other distributions made their installers live-CDs, making Knoppix largely obsolete. The importance of SchilliX is comparable to UltraPenguin instead - an obscure footnote to
OpenSolaris, nothing more. Make an entry in
List of computer technology code names and delete the article. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
89.14.1.219 (
talk) 20:46, 21 January 2017 (UTC)reply
keep SchilliX is not like an average distro, it is the first OpenSolaris based distro and it was the trailblazer for other distros by:
identifying missing and non-redistributable code needed to boot/run the system
implementing OSS replacement code for the missing and non-redistributable parts
verifying that the so created system is usable
documenting the state by listing OpenSource parts, Closed source but redistributable parts and missing or non-redistributable parts
asking Sun Microsystems to open more code to make the act of creating an OpenSolaris based distro easier
Before SchilliX existed, Sun Microsystems believed that the published Source Code cannot be used to create a distro without the help from Sun Microsystems.
The article thus is important for the OpenSolaris lifetime. The article should be enhanced to include a documentation for these facts.
2003:8C:4F3B:D500:213:D3FF:FE4E:7509 (
talk) 20:06, 23 January 2017 (UTC)reply
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