OmniOS: Illumos-based OS from OmniTI

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Post by vgnet » Sat, Apr 14, 2012, 9:02 PM UTC

OmniOS: Illumos-based OS from OmniTI
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Re: OmniOS: Illumos-based OS from OmniTI

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Post by cwp » Sat, Apr 14, 2012, 11:10 PM UTC

I'm not to familiar with the Illumos world. Would this be the equivalent of a new Linux distribution?

Re: OmniOS: Illumos-based OS from OmniTI

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 14, 2012, 11:19 PM UTC

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Post by petedoyle » Sat, Apr 14, 2012, 11:34 PM UTC

cwp wrote: post #2

I'm not to familiar with the Illumos world. Would this be the equivalent of a new Linux distribution?

Yes, I think so, except its the equivalent of a new Solaris/OpenSolaris distribution (from which Illumos derives).

Re: OmniOS: Illumos-based OS from OmniTI

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Post by petedoyle » Sat, Apr 14, 2012, 11:35 PM UTC

I gotta say, ZFS+KVM sure seems like an awesome combo. Any ideas how this is different than SmartOS?

Re: OmniOS: Illumos-based OS from OmniTI

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Post by rollypolly » Sun, Apr 15, 2012, 12:51 AM UTC

petedoyle wrote: post #4

cwp wrote: post #2

I'm not to familiar with the Illumos world. Would this be the equivalent of a new Linux distribution?

Yes, I think so, except its the equivalent of a new Solaris/OpenSolaris distribution (from which Illumos derives).

That's very ambitious. Do you know who they're targeting with this? Legacy systems perhaps?

Re: OmniOS: Illumos-based OS from OmniTI

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Post by justauser » Sun, Apr 15, 2012, 12:55 AM UTC

My understanding of hardware support from SmartOS and Illumos was that it only worked on Intel hardware and not AMD. Is this still the case?

Relevant to this discussion : Joyent releasing SmartOS http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2887170

AMD support from SmartOS wiki: http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/SmartOS+Technical+FAQs#S...

Re: OmniOS: Illumos-based OS from OmniTI

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Post by wmf » Sun, Apr 15, 2012, 1:21 AM UTC

justauser wrote: post #7

My understanding of hardware support from SmartOS and Illumos was that it only worked on Intel hardware and not AMD. Is this still the case? Relevant to this discussion : Joyent releasing SmartOS http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2887170 AMD support from SmartOS wiki: http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/SmartOS+Technical+FAQs#S...

Given the size of the community, it's likely that Illumos will support less and less hardware over time. You may want to stick to whatever's on the Nexenta compatibility list.

Re: OmniOS: Illumos-based OS from OmniTI

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Post by patrickgzill » Sun, Apr 15, 2012, 1:51 AM UTC

petedoyle wrote: post #5

I gotta say, ZFS+KVM sure seems like an awesome combo. Any ideas how this is different than SmartOS?

The SmartOS ISO I downloaded, did not have an installer to help you install the OS to disk.

This one does, according to release notes.

Looks like they have tweaked some of the libraries and they provide both 32 and 64bit versions of Python also (this can be a pain to build sometimes as the configure tools don't always pull in the right libs, so you end up with mixed 32 and 64bit objects or other weirdness).

Also, the installer is minimal, basically just asks you what disk to install on. You do all other configuration after you have booted it for the first time.

Re: OmniOS: Illumos-based OS from OmniTI

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Post by hapless » Sun, Apr 15, 2012, 2:00 AM UTC

So we are now nested, what, six deep in forks? I've long since lost track: OpenSolaris => OpenIndiana => Illumos => this new thing ? are there some in-between steps?

And we don't have 100% solaris api/abi compatibility.

Or a Sun compiler.

Or Sun drivers, necessarily.

Or a real guarantee of future source releases from Oracle.

Who/what is this for?