Re:ZFS for Dummies
by lmm on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @01:30AM
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You might want to consider using FreeBSD then, where there is no licensing issue. I've found it has all the stuff I liked about Linux, and less of the stuff I dislike.
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There is also Illumos/OpenIndiana/OmniOS, basically continuations of OpenSolaris. I have used OpenIndiana for many years and it's been dead reliable and stable.
There's quite a few "quality of life" differences like boot environments (boot into a pre upgraded OS state, even years old), built in SMB server with NFS v4 style ACLs, dtrace, built in snapshot scheduling and management, and Napp-It is an available web UI for management a la FreeNAS/TrueNAS.
It has a few differences, service management is quite different from other things, but overall very underrated as an OS I think.
Re:ZFS for Dummies
by unethical_ban on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @11:14AM
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I haven't looked at those distributions in years. I thought they were niche, container host operating systems and not general purpose.. I guess it need to do my research.
That's because they are niche container host operating systems. Without support for modern hardware like GPUs, it makes no sense to run them on bare metal