Some comments are treating this as an opportunity for a Solaris wake and while I certainly don't object I wonder if needs pointing out that there is a lively ec

Some comments are treating this as an opportunity for a Solaris wake and while I certainly don't object I wonder if needs pointing out that there is a lively ecosystem of Illumos derivatives, Illumos itself being a derivative of Solaris (via what was once called OpenSolaris). Some examples include SmartOS (Samsung maintained datacenter centric flavot, lots of tools for rapid/easy deployment of compute nodes and machine images); OmniOS (for laptops); and one I had never heard of until this post, Tribblix. A common pattern is to run other OSes in some zones via bhyve (linux and bsd) or kvm or lx branded zones (linux). But the native platform can handle many scenarios these days.