Yep, a survival guide can be a good solution. It should show to Linux/FreeBSD admin how to use ZFS, Zones, Etherstub/Vnic, FSS, Capping memory, tuning the system. In what format can we do this if you are agree ? A page in the actual wiki ? a dedicated website ? cms ? pdf file ?
See you, Fred 2014-11-03 11:21 GMT+01:00 Steffen Kram <[email protected]>: > > I think an OmniOS Survival guide would be great. > > Theo, I think that would be a really good idea. In my opinion some pages > of the current wiki admin guide are already a very good first start (e.g. > networking and zones). What’s missing in my point of view are „Migration > Guides“ from other operating systems, especially linux and freebsd. Those > migration guides should cover all things that look „strange“ for > non-solaris folks e.g. partitioning, they should elaborate how to best use > the „specialities“ e.g. how to use smf, fmd ..., what are the benefits of > crossbow, what’s that automounter thing? Why is my home not in /home? > > Those are the questions I often get from people not familiar with > Illumos/Solaris. I already startet a couple of notes that would cover some > of those questions. Helping newbies or linux-sysadmins to get started with > omnios. So I would really like to contribute if there would be a real > community site. > > > If you have to put something like "newbies" in quotes and talk about > them as different than us, you are viewing this community in an unhealthy > way. OmniOS is designed to take Illumos and all of its features and > package it in a way that makes a minimal and useful general operating > system targeted at servers and appliances. Anyone with whom that vision > aligns is most welcome in the community and we should encourage efforts to > make them feel as an accepted part of the whole. > > I think the OmniOS community might be small but I would never call it > unhealthy and I must confess I like the familiar atmosphere. > > One thing why I prefer OmniOS about any other os/distro out there is its > focus on minimalism. This is something that totally contradicts with easy > accessibility for newbies. However, we as a community could do a better job > to pave the way for the more experienced linux/bsd sysadm who wants to dig > into OmniOS. This might be to provide a comprehensive guide how to run > typical software stacks. This should include how to build from the source, > how to package those things and how to run it (smf). > > Although I provide a public OmniOS package server myself. I would never > recommend to use omnios just with 3rd party repositories. I think the > provided build scripts are a wealthy source of information to build own > packages or to do a quick proof of concept but they should for sure not be > viewed as the „Missing OmniOS Distribution Packages“. Those packages might > be highly customized for someone else very own specific needs. > > What I’m getting at, it’s for sure that it would be nice to be more > attractive for a broader user base, but all efforts should be in the spirit > of the existing OmniOS. Hey, that’s why the existing user base is here in > the first place. So let’s educate people on how to use OmniOS to unleash > it’s full potential and don’t try to just provide them with easy to use > pre-packaged solutions! > > Let me close with a pointer to the scala community. They had a similar > problem for a long time, and since they come up with > http://docs.scala-lang.org the documentation is constantly improving. I > really like this approach of a comprehensive website, containing in-depth > guides, easy how-tos for primers and handy cheat-cheats for the daily use. > I’m ready to contribute to a great community doc and willing to invest time > to build it if others also jump in! > > Cheers, Steffen > > — > Dr. Steffen Kram Ulm University > [email protected] Institute for Applied > www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/iai Information Processing > > Helmholtzstraße 18 Phone: 0731 50-23575 > 89081 Ulm, Germany Twitter: @stefritz > > > _______________________________________________ > OmniOS-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss > >
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