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In my case, a Linux personality is not a terribly interesting feature. All of my existing code and apps run on BSD, and FreeBSD is comfortable enough. What I a

by bsg75 12y ago

In my case, a Linux personality is not a terribly interesting feature. All of my existing code and apps run on BSD, and FreeBSD is comfortable enough. What I am looking for is a solid ZFS implementation, a stable OS, and performance (IO and CPU). Jails may not be of too much use in my particular scenario. Data warehousing means aggregation queries running over large sets of on disk data, which is the area I need best of breed support for.

bcantrill 12y ago
Then I think you want to look very seriously at illumos: the ARC alone is a huge win, and it remains the repository of record for both ZFS and DTrace (which, if you care about performance, is important to you).
- bsg75 12y ago
  Any input on which distro? SmartOS is interesting, but seems to be more of a hypervisor / container for multi-tennancy? Looking for a single server implementation with good package support. OmniOS / OpenIndiana / ... ?
  - bcantrill 12y ago
    OmniOS should be perfect for you: designed for traditional server installs and with good package support. Hit me (@bcantrill), @postwait or @danmcd up on twitter or drop into #illumos on Freenode if you run into turbulence!
    - _delirium 12y ago
      > good package support I'll admit my OmniOS experience is quite minimal, but this was one thing I found frustrating about it. IMO the SmartOS packaging situation, with ~13,000 binary packages available via pkgsrc/pkgin, is a lot nicer. OmniOS seems to have <1k packages available via IPS, and be more geared towards the kind of corporate scenario where you install the base OS and then build/deploy your own in-house set of application packages. (That's a perfectly legitimate scenario too, but pretty different from the pkgsrc/ports/apt style.)
      - bsg75 12y ago
        Can the Joyent package repo be added to OmniOS? http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/installing.html http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/installing.html
        _delirium 12y ago
        Ah that's a good point, I hadn't thought to try that. It looks like Joyent makes sure to build their binary packages so they're self-contained and will work on any Illumos distribution, which is pretty cool.

by bsg75 12y ago

bcantrill 12y ago

Then I think you want to look very seriously at illumos: the ARC alone is a huge win, and it remains the repository of record for both ZFS and DTrace (which, if you care about performance, is important to you).

bsg75 12y ago
Any input on which distro? SmartOS is interesting, but seems to be more of a hypervisor / container for multi-tennancy? Looking for a single server implementation with good package support. OmniOS / OpenIndiana / ... ?
- bcantrill 12y ago
  OmniOS should be perfect for you: designed for traditional server installs and with good package support. Hit me (@bcantrill), @postwait or @danmcd up on twitter or drop into #illumos on Freenode if you run into turbulence!
  - _delirium 12y ago
    > good package support I'll admit my OmniOS experience is quite minimal, but this was one thing I found frustrating about it. IMO the SmartOS packaging situation, with ~13,000 binary packages available via pkgsrc/pkgin, is a lot nicer. OmniOS seems to have <1k packages available via IPS, and be more geared towards the kind of corporate scenario where you install the base OS and then build/deploy your own in-house set of application packages. (That's a perfectly legitimate scenario too, but pretty different from the pkgsrc/ports/apt style.)
    - bsg75 12y ago
      Can the Joyent package repo be added to OmniOS? http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/installing.html http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/installing.html
      - _delirium 12y ago
        Ah that's a good point, I hadn't thought to try that. It looks like Joyent makes sure to build their binary packages so they're self-contained and will work on any Illumos distribution, which is pretty cool.