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Preparing to join the #EurobhyeCon by @dexter
Zagreb is beautiful, but bhyve is bhyve and can't miss it.
For those who are interested, the event will be streamed
#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #FreeBSD #illumos #OmniOS #SmartOS
The #eurobhyvecom will be streamed here https://youtube.com/live/623VvrCDf7o
#EuroBSDCon #bhyve #FreeBSD #illumos #OmniOS #SmartOS #OpenIndiana #Tribblix
Preparing to join the #EurobhyeCon by @dexter
Zagreb is beautiful, but bhyve is bhyve and can't miss it.
For those who are interested, the event will be streamed
#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #FreeBSD #illumos #OmniOS #SmartOS
I'm building a new EPYC Rome node for my home data center, trying to figure out if OmniOS can run everything I want. The last component just arrived and the machine is memtesting right now.
Over the years I've ran mostly ESXi and I've also tried to love (but didn't) Proxmox. My new node has a twin sister with a Skylake Xeon, running Fedora. If everything goes to plan the twin can be migrated to OmniOS later too.
Some specs:
- Inter-Tech 4U-4408 storage chassis
- Supermicro H11SSL-i motherboard
- AMD EPYC 7302P CPU (16 cores)
- 8x 16 GB DDR4 3200 ECC RDIMM (Samsung)
- 1x 2 TB M.2 NVMe WD SN700
- 2x 16 TB HDD Toshiba MG09
This motherboard is a little funny. You get two SFF-8643 connectors, but there's no SAS chip, so you can only break them out to SATA. Suits me fine for this build, the chassis backplanes happily take SFF-8643 too. The H11SSL-i motherboard is alright. EPYC Rome also fits a H12SSL-i which would get me PCIe 4.0, but the price for the motherboard + CPU combo would have doubled and I don't really need it for this build.
The Inter-Tech (German brand) chassis are pretty nice for affordable DIY builds. 4U is sweet because you can use regular ATX PSU's and fit heat sinks with fans that don't sound like jet engines. The heat sink I have now is a "CooNong" (? bless me) that I got with the motherboard. Looks like a clone of the same style that Supermicro sells. It came with the most crappy fan humanity ever laid eyes on so I promptly fitted a Noctua like the rest of the fans. As usual, motherboard warns about fan speeds being too low, expecting high RPM data center fans, but temps are otherwise fine. At least there's no audible warning for the fan speeds on this motherboard. The result: you can actually work right next to the machine.
I'm building a new EPYC Rome node for my home data center, trying to figure out if OmniOS can run everything I want. The last component just arrived and the machine is memtesting right now.
Over the years I've ran mostly ESXi and I've also tried to love (but didn't) Proxmox. My new node has a twin sister with a Skylake Xeon, running Fedora. If everything goes to plan the twin can be migrated to OmniOS later too.
Some specs:
- Inter-Tech 4U-4408 storage chassis
- Supermicro H11SSL-i motherboard
- AMD EPYC 7302P CPU (16 cores)
- 8x 16 GB DDR4 3200 ECC RDIMM (Samsung)
- 1x 2 TB M.2 NVMe WD SN700
- 2x 16 TB HDD Toshiba MG09
This motherboard is a little funny. You get two SFF-8643 connectors, but there's no SAS chip, so you can only break them out to SATA. Suits me fine for this build, the chassis backplanes happily take SFF-8643 too. The H11SSL-i motherboard is alright. EPYC Rome also fits a H12SSL-i which would get me PCIe 4.0, but the price for the motherboard + CPU combo would have doubled and I don't really need it for this build.
The Inter-Tech (German brand) chassis are pretty nice for affordable DIY builds. 4U is sweet because you can use regular ATX PSU's and fit heat sinks with fans that don't sound like jet engines. The heat sink I have now is a "CooNong" (? bless me) that I got with the motherboard. Looks like a clone of the same style that Supermicro sells. It came with the most crappy fan humanity ever laid eyes on so I promptly fitted a Noctua like the rest of the fans. As usual, motherboard warns about fan speeds being too low, expecting high RPM data center fans, but temps are otherwise fine. At least there's no audible warning for the fan speeds on this motherboard. The result: you can actually work right next to the machine.
One of my plans for the next few weeks is to take a nice "dip" back into #OpenIndiana, which I haven't tried in a while. I currently have installations of both #SmartOS and #OmniOS, each with its own specific target. I also want to try installing #Tribblix on a PC that's not exactly new, but still perfectly functional.
One of my plans for the next few weeks is to take a nice "dip" back into #OpenIndiana, which I haven't tried in a while. I currently have installations of both #SmartOS and #OmniOS, each with its own specific target. I also want to try installing #Tribblix on a PC that's not exactly new, but still perfectly functional.
In the past couple of days I debugged an issue affecting #rustler in #illumos ( #omnios ). Rustler is an ergonomic way to implement NIFs for #erlang / #elixir and they weren't loading at all. This led me to a fairly fun rabbithole.
I've written a first draft of the experience debugging in #illumos here: https://system-illumination.org/01-rustler.html
In the spirit of the recent #illumoscafe I also take a chance to start my #illumos site: https://system-illumination.org, where I'll be posting and documenting my learnings to shine a bit more light into this beautiful OS and tooling.
The above write-up is my first post on this new platform.
Hope you like it!
In the past couple of days I debugged an issue affecting #rustler in #illumos ( #omnios ). Rustler is an ergonomic way to implement NIFs for #erlang / #elixir and they weren't loading at all. This led me to a fairly fun rabbithole.
I've written a first draft of the experience debugging in #illumos here: https://system-illumination.org/01-rustler.html
In the spirit of the recent #illumoscafe I also take a chance to start my #illumos site: https://system-illumination.org, where I'll be posting and documenting my learnings to shine a bit more light into this beautiful OS and tooling.
The above write-up is my first post on this new platform.
Hope you like it!
Checking things with 
#OmniOS on MeLE Quieter 4C...
OOTB and idling, it eats 8W out of the USB-C power brick.
Checking things with #OmniOS on MeLE Quieter 4C...
OOTB and idling, it eats 8W out of the USB-C power brick.
Linux feels like a duct-taped amalgamation of random ideas, don't get me wrong I love Linux and all it represents, but it's a system that has been grown in any direction.
With Illumos instead it feels like you have orthogonal powerful building blocks you can compose into something greater than the sum of its parts. #zfs #dtrace #zones #crossbow it all works beautifully, both on their own and together.
After seeing how virtualized networking can be done in solaris, the docker networking stack feels so sad in comparison.
So far I'm very impressed.
Connecting to my #OmniOS NAS from the Windows 10 Terminal causes a blinking issue in nano. I fixed it: https://extrowerk.com/2025-07-03/Fixing-Windows-Term.html
Connecting to my #OmniOS NAS from the Windows 10 Terminal causes a blinking issue in nano. I fixed it: https://extrowerk.com/2025-07-03/Fixing-Windows-Term.html
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