I’m setting up a SmartOS server on a little NUC right now and loving it. Zones are very nice, pkgsrc package manager is better than I expected, man pages wonder

I’m setting up a SmartOS server on a little NUC right now and loving it. Zones are very nice, pkgsrc package manager is better than I expected, man pages wonderfully written, even ipfilter feels more elegant than iptables. Service and zone admin very well thought out. It feels much more like a cohesive /system/ than say fedora or Ubuntu. Can run Linux without virtualization (native performance via syscall translation) in a zone if I hit any issues, which I’ve not yet (simple web stack). Google around for some of Bryan Cantrill’s talks on smartos. Solaris derivative. He’s been quite critical of several linux engineering decisions and what he frames as sloppy thinking in the kernel community. I found this helpful/inspiring - https://timboudreau.com/blog/smartos/read https://timboudreau.com/blog/smartos/read - if you follow his example be sure to change dataset_uuid to image_uuid in the zone manifest.