@BenBen @fabiscafe @okapi @chesheer I don't deny this to be a problem, far from it.

• In an ideal world, stuff would be portable enough that the underlying init (and Userland in general) as well as Kernel didn't matter and merely be a different config file.

In reality, a substantial part of #Gnome devs (or at least contributors) are paid by the 3 major #Linux distros (#RHEL, #SLED, #Ubuntu) and whilst not being antragonistic towards #BSD|s don't get employed to enshure it runs on #FreeBSD, but that it runs better on the distro their employer is selling…

• And given that these projects don't have infinite resources and espechally maintainers I don't blame them to redelegate a lot of work to #SystemD instead of reimplementing something themselves.

OFC it's saddening in regards to non-Linux #Unix-esque OSes, but given self-amplifying network effects both the murder of #OpenSolaris at the hands of #Oracle (with @EUCommission and #FTC as enablers!) and @iXsystems ditching #FreeBSD in #trueNAS alongside regressing #driver support for hardware outside of Linux, #macOS and #Windows, it's not a good time for these projects.

• Which is bad because BSDs and other OSes force Linux to innovate and ' get gud '!

Ok that was a fun time travel with #OpenIndiana #illumos but I guess this where it ends, hardware support feels like when I left #OpenSolaris only worked on one of my machines and that thing is sooooo old, not fun with that OS and their repos must be running on a Pi Zero, pulling updates at ISDN speed with constant timeouts, still max respect for holding the torch up, still wish some more hands where on the project.

Using #OpenIndiana #illumos #OpenSolaris with style and dignity.

So with #Oracle putting out a new version of #Solaris plebs are allowed to touch I felt like unretiring a old PC and install #OpenIndiana #illumos on it. Wait you thought I would touch something the devil him self ruined? No Oracle axing #OpenSolaris was one of the reasons why I hate that company.

Anyway that was rough like seriously, first off finding parts that are supported, also their latest UI image is broken and I thought for hours the hardware was to blame, UEFI is supported but crashes the kernel on all my machines.

Had to use an older image from 10.24 to get it installed and then it took the whole day to update the system, USB stick mounting throws errors but other then that works ok now.

It's really such a shame opensolaris was my daily driver for nearly a year back then, was one of the reason I got comfy with compiling my own stuff again at that time. Still have a soft spot for that OS, would be cool if they could get more manpower again.

@bastetfurry @fuchsiii @puppygirlhornypost2 it's basically salvaged #OpenSolaris...

Gerade bin ich zufällig auf #OpenIndiana gestoßen – #OpenSolaris lebt weiter! Es ist großartig, dass solche Projekte dank der Community weiterhin existieren.
#OpenSource #Unix #SystemV

@matthew My interests in Sun started when i got my first #sunmicrosystems computer. Finding out about #opensolaris and #Illumos was eye-opening to put it mildly.
I ran a "NAS" machine some time with #omnios until i had a disk crash and motherboard failure #openindiana saved me that time

i can recommend

Mastodon (of course)

unitedbsd.com

smartos.org

tribblix.org

www.openindiana.org

illumos.org

omnios.org

https://youtube.com/@stephensmachineroom?si=1LF6ybvu83c_dmDp

https://youtu.be/dxZExLeJz2I?si=mzs6FuXrIW49RSyA

Hope you find something useful 😊

#tribblix got some cool zone management with #zap
Just playing around with #bhyve and #netbsd
NetBSD feels fast.
one line to deploy a zone #1337hax0r

#sunos #opensolaris #illumos

Introducing a ddu-alike feature for Tribblix

https://ptribble.blogspot.com/2025/02/introducing-ddu-alike-for-tribblix.html

#Tribblix #illumos #opensolaris

What do you mean in detail?

#Illumos on #arm64 works quite good.

#illumosgate #aarch64 #opensolaris #solaris

@Toasterson

Tomorrow the #opensource #FOSDEM #conference starts in #Brussels, #Belgium!

Let’s see if we can attract more people to #BSD based systems by providing free #vps running #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD or even #illumos as an #opensolaris solution.

@gyptazy will be onsite to provide you more information or even stickers ;)

#freeVPS #RUNBSD #network #fediverse

Hard to believe it’s been 20 years since the first publication of #OpenSolaris source code with the #DTrace source release:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050208015516/http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-01/sunflash.20050125.1.html

We just added a free #loadbalancing service to #BoxyBSD!

This new feature got added by @gyptazy in addition to the newly introduced #NAT64 gateways to make your life easier and is currently tested with a few users! This provides you the ability to make your website also reachable by #IPv4 even your box is only running on #IPv6. This feature can be managed from your self-service portal and simply requires you to add a DNS name that should be balanced and to point the DNS A record to a given IPv4.

Making the legacy internet life easier, we hope for a higher #BSD adaption where people might be more motivated to try #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD or even #opensolaris with #illumos.

#hosting #opensource #runbsd #hosting #free #service #saas #community #vps #vserver #server #vm

2025 is starting great - and I took all opportunities!

Like probably all personal playgrounds, I started small with many technically working but not ideal solutions. Ignoring several RFC's, standards etc,.

This also applies to my @BoxyBSD project that provides free VPS (#BSD focussed, such like #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD but also #illumos / #opensolaris etc.,) boxes for the #opensource community and beginners to provide them a place for learning and education.

I decreased (yeah decreased) the amount of overall systems. Instead, we now have bigger sized systems which makes the overall management easier and also improved the whole networking stack. Also some other benefits came along with this ;) I'm really happy to see what 2025 brings up - and there're several great things to be announced soon :)

#RUNBSD

I just launched the new @BoxyBSD self-service portal where you can finally manage your BSD based box instances on your own - and I really love this minimalistic and terminal alike design.

The installer currently supports #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #DragonflyBSD, #MidnightBSD and also #Illumos (#OpenSolaris).

Have fun and #RUNBSD!

To all #Solaris and #Opensolaris enthusiasts and tinkerers. Want to contribute to OpenIndiana and don't know how? Start with adopting a package from our userland and hit me up if you hit a bump. https://docs.openindiana.org/dev/userland/

I'm not sure how your setup looks like but for @BoxyBSD I solved it on my own to ensure people can use the #OpenIndiana repo and #pkg. You can currently access it by using:

https://pkg-openindiana.mirror.gyptazy.com

If there's coming too much traffic, I may limit it to BoxyBSD src addresses.

@Toasterson @BoxyBSD #IPv6 #illumos #Solaris #OpenSolaris #Mirror

Hey #OpenIndiana team,

I'm running with https://boxybsd.com (@BoxyBSD) a hosting platform, offering free VPS for people in the educational sector that want to explore and learn #BSD & #Solaris based operating systems. However, we have 2024 and pkg.openindiana.org is still IPv4 only - any thoughts about running dual-stack?

In the meantime my workaround for the users:
https://pkg-openindiana.mirror.gyptazy.com

Thanks!

#IPv6 #illumos #opensolaris #network

Also I loved #OpenSolaris and ported a few things before #Oracle came along and did what they do best be being an absolute shit stain in the world of computers... it's still kinda alive in #illumos but sadly the project has not as much traction which is a real bummer.

Wish #SunMicrosystems would have putted it under a better license before Oracle ruined it after their acquisition.

@lproven a 2013 capture of the 2007 blog post:

CSI:Munich - How to save the world with ZFS and 12 USB Sticks (Constantin's Blooog)

<https://web.archive.org/web/20130514111824/https://blogs.oracle.com/constantin/entry/csi_munich_how_to_save>

「… it took us a couple of retries until the remove-sticks-mix-then-replug stunt worked, because it turned out that the laptop's USB implementation wasn't as reliable as we needed it to be. And yes, it does help to wait until they've finished blinking before removing any sticks :).

All in all, it was great fun for us producing this video …」

#ZFS #Sun #Solaris #OpenSolaris #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine

🏆 @internetarchive @brewsterkahle and all responsible.