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OmniOS should be perfect for you: designed for traditional server installs and with good package support. Hit me (@bcantrill), @postwait or @danmcd up on twit
by 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 agoCan the Joyent package repo be added to OmniOS? http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/installing.html http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/installing.html
- _delirium 12y agoAh 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.