Steve Litt, since you liked playing with PC-BSD before it suddenly took a left turn into TruOS, maybe you would consider Illumian? It's IllumOS (ex-Solaris) with Debian packaging -- successor to the short-lived but promising Nexenta project. (I was a little more enthusiastic about Nexenta, as that was the entire GNU userspace atop the then-ex-Solaris kernel, but this is still worthy of respect.)
See Bryan Cantrill's LISA conference slide at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=59m36s Actually, the whole LISA talk is engaging (especially if you don't yet have enough reasons to distrust Oracle Corporation). On that latter note, also, viva LibreOffice! ASF, give it up with Open Office, already! http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/conspire/2016-September/008550.html http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/conspire/2016-September/008551.html Illumian is here: http://illumian.org/ (Yeah, they're not much for marketing.) I gather that they're not yet a mature project, and don't expect anything even remotely approaching a desktop distribution at this early stage. I'm just saying, if you're considering BSD-based builds, you should certainly consider IllumOS-based ones, too. Among other things, you get top-notch implementations of ZFS, dtrace, and zones for free. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
