nortonham
Do you still use it ?
I use it as a desktop with my laptop, and I use Omnios and also OI on bare metal, running web servers, SQL, XMPP etc...
It's reliable.
Bhyve is also supported and works very well.
And when you have a problem, they answer very quickly and fix the things.
Illumos is not dead.
There should be a category for illumos on unitedbsd. I could post hundreds of messages