Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana vs FreeBSD

2020-07-15 Thread Joshua M. Clulow
On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 at 23:38, Judah Richardson wrote: > If I had to choose between the 2, I'd run FreeBSD because at least if I > have a problem there's a proper handbook and I'll get probably 5 replies in > r/FreeBSD or r/BSD instead 1 or 0 in r/Illumos and r/unix. I suspect you'll get better

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana vs FreeBSD

2020-07-15 Thread Judah Richardson
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 8:33 AM Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jul 2020, Judah Richardson wrote: > > FreeBSD advantages: > > > > 1. Much better 3rd party package support (including recent Firefox > > releases > > 2. Much larger userbase > > 3. Much

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana vs FreeBSD

2020-07-15 Thread Judah Richardson
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 3:21 AM Andreas Wacknitz wrote: > Am 15.07.20 um 08:38 schrieb Judah Richardson: > > My disclaimer: I run several OS's, have been a Linux fan during its > infancy days until I realized that there are other OS's that suit me > better. > I am running OI on servers and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana vs FreeBSD

2020-07-15 Thread Judah Richardson
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 2:10 AM Guenther Alka wrote: > > Both are Unix Options and both have unique use cases. > Since around a year Open-ZFS in Illumos includes newest ZFS features > like encryption and special vdevs while they are at first beta in > Free-BSD but soon Free-BSD should include

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana vs FreeBSD

2020-07-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020, Judah Richardson wrote: FreeBSD advantages: 1. Much better 3rd party package support (including recent Firefox releases 2. Much larger userbase 3. Much better documentation of the OS itself (documentation of Illumos itself is relatively lacking; Solaris docs

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana vs FreeBSD

2020-07-15 Thread andy thomas
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020, Judah Richardson wrote: I run both of the above, in addition to 3 release channels of Windows, 3 Linux distros, and Android, because I love OSes and am fascinated by the different approaches various projects take to solve the same problems. You'll learn a lot regardless

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana vs FreeBSD

2020-07-15 Thread James
On 15/07/2020 07:38, Judah Richardson wrote: I recently went through a fresh OI install and was more than a bit disappointed that in AD 2020 I still can't achieve UEFI boot. OmniOS since r151032 (2019-11-04) supports UEFI boot.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana vs FreeBSD

2020-07-15 Thread rmd
Hi folks, just my two cents… Since I came from the solaris world I do feel more comfortable with OpenIndiana then FreeBSD, but FreeBSD evolved great as it supports not only ZFS but also bootenvironments which are quite comfortable for upgrades and changes. On desktopsystems I use OpenIndiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana vs FreeBSD

2020-07-15 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Am 15.07.20 um 08:38 schrieb Judah Richardson: My disclaimer: I run several OS's, have been a Linux fan during its infancy days until I realized that there are other OS's that suit me better. I am running OI on servers and desktop. I'd say OI is my 2nd desktop, MacOS being my 1st and Windows

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana vs FreeBSD

2020-07-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
In my production systems, I used a combination of lots of OSs. I used OI for it's zones and networking. I used Linux for virtual box, web services and open VPN. I used freeNAS for file serving. These roles and usages changed over time, as I also used to use OI as my web gateways, and for my

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana vs FreeBSD

2020-07-15 Thread Guenther Alka
Both are Unix Options and both have unique use cases. Since around a year Open-ZFS in Illumos includes newest ZFS features like encryption and special vdevs while they are at first beta in Free-BSD but soon Free-BSD should include them as well. For me the main advantage of Illumos are the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana vs FreeBSD

2020-07-15 Thread Judah Richardson
I run both FreeBSD and OpenIndiana on their own bare metal devices, so what I'm about to say is based on my own experience. I hope it doesn't upset anyone. On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 8:21 PM Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > Greetings All, > > Hope that everyone one is well today. > > Although I am

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana vs FreeBSD

2020-07-14 Thread Michael Schuster
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 3:21 AM Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > Greetings All, > > Hope that everyone one is well today. > > Although I am assuming that this may not be the best place to ask this > question, I am wondering if there is an advantage of Openindiana (Illumos > based) or perhaps OmniOS

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana vs FreeBSD

2020-07-14 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Greetings All, Hope that everyone one is well today. Although I am assuming that this may not be the best place to ask this question, I am wondering if there is an advantage of Openindiana (Illumos based) or perhaps OmniOS over FreeBSD, or perhaps the other way around. I am going to move from