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I have been looking more at smartos (and other openindiana derivatives). Zones + KVM + ZFS. Oh my!
by stock_toaster 14y ago
I have been looking more at smartos (and other openindiana derivatives). Zones + KVM + ZFS. Oh my!
- cwp 14y agoYou forgot DTrace!
- stock_toaster 14y agoack! I sure did! And you are quite right. DTrace is super.
- jnw2 14y agosmartos does seem to be missing an X server you can run in the global zone on the physical machine's physical video port(s), though, which makes it pretty useless for a home computer (which otherwise would be a great place to start playing with it before deploying it elsewhere).
- helper 14y agoSmartOS is definitely not intended to be used as a desktop system, but it can work great as a home server if you have some spare hardware. OpenIndiana is another Illumos distro that can be used as a desktop. You get all of the core benefits of Illumos (zones, zfs, dtrace). The big downside is that you don't get the nice tools for managing zones/vms that SmartOS provides (vmadm/imgadm). FreeBSD has ported a lot of the best features from Illumos so it could also work for you. Just remember that an OS is only worth running if it has DTrace.