Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

I've never hidden my admiration for -based systems. I have a few setups based on and , and they're solid as a rock. I like them both: OmniOS is more "malleable", while SmartOS is more of a hypervisor like -ng or - meaning you install it on the host and delegate everything else to the zones.

I also love jails, but zones sometimes cover use cases that jails can't (and vice versa). For example, imposing RAM limits in jails works, but it effectively "denies more ram" to a process when it requests more memory. The end user doesn't see this directly. On illumos, the user sees everything. I have some `lx` zones with Debian and Virtualmin, and users have never noticed that they aren't really on . A free or top will show only the assigned RAM.

And that's one of the biggest problems with open-source operating systems: they all have something good, and I always feel the urge to use them all! 🙂
stratacast
@stratacast@mastodon.bsd.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago
@stefano I started on FreeBSD for my home server (after some time with Ubuntu), but found out that I was using it similar to the way SmartOS wants you to use it. Because of that I stopped using FreeBSD on my home server and SmartOS has significantly cut down my maintenance time. Very cool having diversity of choice with software. Not everything is a nail