On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 at 23:38, Judah Richardson
wrote:
> If I had to choose between the 2, I'd run FreeBSD because at least if I
> have a problem there's a proper handbook and I'll get probably 5 replies in
> r/FreeBSD or r/BSD instead 1 or 0 in r/Illumos and r/unix.
I suspect you'll get better --
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 8:33 AM Bob Friesenhahn <
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2020, Judah Richardson wrote:
> > FreeBSD advantages:
> >
> > 1. Much better 3rd party package support (including recent Firefox
> > releases
> > 2. Much larger userbase
> > 3. Much bett
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 3:21 AM Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
> Am 15.07.20 um 08:38 schrieb Judah Richardson:
>
> My disclaimer: I run several OS's, have been a Linux fan during its
> infancy days until I realized that there are other OS's that suit me
> better.
> I am running OI on servers and deskto
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 2:10 AM Guenther Alka wrote:
>
> Both are Unix Options and both have unique use cases.
> Since around a year Open-ZFS in Illumos includes newest ZFS features
> like encryption and special vdevs while they are at first beta in
> Free-BSD but soon Free-BSD should include the
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020, Judah Richardson wrote:
FreeBSD advantages:
1. Much better 3rd party package support (including recent Firefox
releases
2. Much larger userbase
3. Much better documentation of the OS itself (documentation of Illumos
itself is relatively lacking; Solaris docs remain
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020, Judah Richardson wrote:
I run both of the above, in addition to 3 release channels of Windows, 3
Linux distros, and Android, because I love OSes and am fascinated by the
different approaches various projects take to solve the same problems.
You'll learn a lot regardless of
On 15/07/2020 07:38, Judah Richardson wrote:
I recently went through a
fresh OI install and was more than a bit disappointed that in AD 2020 I
still can't achieve UEFI boot.
OmniOS since r151032 (2019-11-04) supports UEFI boot.
https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-build/blob/r151032/doc/Releas
Hi folks,
just my two cents…
Since I came from the solaris world I do feel more comfortable with OpenIndiana
then FreeBSD, but FreeBSD evolved great as it supports not only ZFS but also
bootenvironments which are quite comfortable for upgrades and changes.
On desktopsystems I use OpenIndiana beca
Am 15.07.20 um 08:38 schrieb Judah Richardson:
My disclaimer: I run several OS's, have been a Linux fan during its
infancy days until I realized that there are other OS's that suit me better.
I am running OI on servers and desktop. I'd say OI is my 2nd desktop,
MacOS being my 1st and Windows 3rd.
In my production systems, I used a combination of lots of OSs.
I used OI for it's zones and networking. I used Linux for virtual box, web
services and open VPN. I used freeNAS for file serving.
These roles and usages changed over time, as I also used to use OI as my
web gateways, and for my stati
Both are Unix Options and both have unique use cases.
Since around a year Open-ZFS in Illumos includes newest ZFS features
like encryption and special vdevs while they are at first beta in
Free-BSD but soon Free-BSD should include them as well.
For me the main advantage of Illumos are the So
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