The latest bi-weekly branch of SmartOS is up ( #smartos )
https://smartos.topicbox.com/groups/smartos-discuss/Tf80fbd4630e872d3-M69fc64a73b8179c1d388908c
https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20260205T001426Z
The latest bi-weekly branch of SmartOS is up ( #smartos )
https://smartos.topicbox.com/groups/smartos-discuss/Tf80fbd4630e872d3-M69fc64a73b8179c1d388908c
https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20260205T001426Z
#Introduction
Hi, this is a backup account first, in case my instance isn't available and people who are not in direct contact with me daily would need to find about it (there is no such users at the moment though).
I use Linux and Unixen for about 20 years, and run a server for my projects with SmartOS since somewhen in 2012 (at first at OVH, then at Hetzner).
I contribute to different OSS projects whenever I could, and recently I was honoured to help to establish the OpenIndiana/illumos Association - #OIDA
Also on topic of this instance:
my own istance is a small one, but it runs fully under the #SmartOS hypervisor on a bare metal server, splitted into a few LX zones (for ruby processes - puma and sidekiqs) and a few natives ones (postgres, redis, etc).
It is a third iteration of the setup since 2012 - back then it was possible to run everything in natives zones.
#Introduction
Hi, this is a backup account first, in case my instance isn't available and people who are not in direct contact with me daily would need to find about it (there is no such users at the moment though).
I use Linux and Unixen for about 20 years, and run a server for my projects with SmartOS since somewhen in 2012 (at first at OVH, then at Hetzner).
I contribute to different OSS projects whenever I could, and recently I was honoured to help to establish the OpenIndiana/illumos Association - #OIDA
Also on topic of this instance:
my own istance is a small one, but it runs fully under the #SmartOS hypervisor on a bare metal server, splitted into a few LX zones (for ruby processes - puma and sidekiqs) and a few natives ones (postgres, redis, etc).
It is a third iteration of the setup since 2012 - back then it was possible to run everything in natives zones.
The latest bi-weekly branch of SmartOS is up. ( #smartos )
https://smartos.topicbox.com/groups/smartos-discuss/T98e48e1c20e168c7-M091757fd2b8863d5808c98f0
https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20260108T003758Z
The latest bi-weekly branch of SmartOS is up. ( #smartos )
https://smartos.topicbox.com/groups/smartos-discuss/T98e48e1c20e168c7-M091757fd2b8863d5808c98f0
https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20260108T003758Z
Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared
Update: This post has been updated to include Docker benchmarks and a comparison of container overhead versus FreeBSD Jails and illumos Zones.
#ITNotes #freebsd #illumos #jail #linux #netbsd #openbsd #ownyourdata #server #smartos #sysadmin #zoneshosting
Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linu
#HackerNews #StaticWebHosting #IntelN150 #FreeBSD #SmartOS #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Linux
Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared
Update: This post has been updated to include Docker benchmarks and a comparison of container overhead versus FreeBSD Jails and illumos Zones.
#ITNotes #freebsd #illumos #jail #linux #netbsd #openbsd #ownyourdata #server #smartos #sysadmin #zoneshosting
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
#SmartOS #pkgsrc binary #repository have been updated!
If you use any #pkgsrc based #Illumos #zone you can update now:
https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/packages/SmartOS/trunk/x86_64/All/
#SmartOS #pkgsrc binary #repository have been updated!
If you use any #pkgsrc based #Illumos #zone you can update now:
https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/packages/SmartOS/trunk/x86_64/All/
#Homelab 2022 Part 2 - #Samba on #SmartOS #Illumos using delegated datasets : https://thetooth.name/blog/homelab-2022-part-2-samba-on-smartos-using-delegated-datasets/
