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So, to a newcomer, what are the things that these flavors offer over, say, stock Debian?
by angersock 13y ago
So, to a newcomer, what are the things that these flavors offer over, say, stock Debian?
- nosequel 13y agoTry reading the linked slide deck for a start. ZFS, Zones, DTrace, Crossbow, etc., etc.
- thelambentonion 13y agoWhile I haven't had a chance to use illumos in any of my projects, the Service Management Facility (SMF)[0] and Fault Manager Daemon (FMD)[1] are two big reasons why I'm looking at switching from FreeBSD to an illumos variant for my home server. It's been a little while since I've used Debian, but I don't believe any systems comparable to SMF or FMD have been implemented[2]. [0] https://www.illumos.org/man/5/smf https://www.illumos.org/man/5/smf [1] https://www.illumos.org/man/1M/fmd https://www.illumos.org/man/1M/fmd [2] I'm not sure how well systemd compares to SMF, and I'm mostly interested in FMD/SMF due to how well it can handle ZFS fault management.