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Re:ZFS for Dummies by seized on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @02:12AM (#37388420)
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.

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Re:ZFS for Dummies by unethical_ban on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @11:14AM (#37392778)
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.
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Re:ZFS for Dummies by NavinF on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @11:12PM (#37400947)
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
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Re:ZFS for Dummies by seized on Friday September 15, 2023 @12:21AM (#37518387)
Sure it does, they are great storage OSs. A NAS doesnt need GPUs.
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