Stefano Marinelli
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And you may find yourself…
Building #OmniOS ARM64 from sources.
And you may find yourself…
Building #OmniOS ARM64 from sources.
Last week I had a chat with a colleague who is highly specialized in Microsoft solutions. Young but not too young, smart, not very up to date simply because he has little time for anything else. His specialization depends entirely on where he works, not on personal interest. Lately he seemed a bit disillusioned with some choices made by "other operating systems", and he was starting to consider moving his personal projects toward Microsoft as well, since he already had the experience. Still, he said it with boredom. With the attitude of someone who is tired of wasting time.
He had heard of the BSDs but had never tried installing them. He was convinced that there were no decent hypervisors outside the Linux world and that KVM belonged to Linux alone. I had the terrible idea of showing him the BSDs, how great bhyve is, and how nvmm on NetBSD uses qemu underneath, making it almost a replacement for KVM in many setups. He lit up with the look of someone waking up from a long sleep. I also had the terrible idea of showing him illumos and its distributions. He had no clue it existed and thought old, great Solaris had been dead for years thanks to Oracle.
He called me a little while ago. He was furious. He spent the whole weekend doing tests and now he has no idea what to use among FreeBSD with bhyve, NetBSD with nvmm, and illumos with bhyve or kvm. He is slowly starting to explore jails and illumos zones. He was annoyed (in a positive way) because now he does not know what to pick since everything feels so different from what he was used to, and he found advantages in each option.
I am obviously happy about it, but I also wonder: instead of reinventing the wheel every time, would it not sometimes be better to simply broaden our horizons?
#IT #SysAdmin #OperatingSystems #FreeBSD #Linux #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #OpenIndiana #Tribblix
Michael Dexter
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OmniOSce v11 r151056 is out!
On the 3rd of November 2025, the OmniOSce Association has released a new stable version of OmniOS - The Open Source Enterprise Server OS. The release comes with many tool updates, brand-new features and additional hardware support. For details see the release notes.
https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-build/blob/r151056/doc/ReleaseNotes.md
Michael Dexter
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#OmniOS Community Edition r151056 is out!
#Illumos
https://omnios.org/article/r56
OmniOSce v11 r151056 is out!
On the 3rd of November 2025, the OmniOSce Association has released a new stable version of OmniOS - The Open Source Enterprise Server OS. The release comes with many tool updates, brand-new features and additional hardware support. For details see the release notes.
https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-build/blob/r151056/doc/ReleaseNotes.md
#OmniOS Community Edition r151056 is out!
#Illumos
https://omnios.org/article/r56
Stefano Marinelli
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#Fish shell ported to #OmniOS:
https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-extra/pull/1675
Stefano Marinelli
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#Paperless-ngx have been updated and OCR language packs have been installed in a #LX zone running on #OmniOS ( #Illumos ). Life is great!
Michael Dexter
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How to provision an OmniOS CE r151054 instance on AWS EC2
How to provision an OmniOS CE r151054 instance on AWS EC2
#Paperless-ngx have been updated and OCR language packs have been installed in a #LX zone running on #OmniOS ( #Illumos ). Life is great!
#Fish shell ported to #OmniOS:
https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-extra/pull/1675
Michael Dexter
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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
Michael Dexter
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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
Stefano Marinelli
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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.
