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0 pointsseized2y ago0 comments

There is also Illumos/OpenIndiana/OmniOS, basically continuations of OpenSolaris. I have used OpenIndiana for many years and it's been dead reliable and stable.

There's quite a few "quality of life" differences like boot environments (boot into a pre upgraded OS state, even years old), built in SMB server with NFS v4 style ACLs, dtrace, built in snapshot scheduling and management, and Napp-It is an available web UI for management a la FreeNAS/TrueNAS.

It has a few differences, service management is quite different from other things, but overall very underrated as an OS I think.

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unethical_ban2y ago

I haven't looked at those distributions in years. I thought they were niche, container host operating systems and not general purpose.. I guess it need to do my research.

NavinF2y ago

That's because they are niche container host operating systems. Without support for modern hardware like GPUs, it makes no sense to run them on bare metal

seizedOP2y ago

Sure it does, they are great storage OSs. A NAS doesnt need GPUs.

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