Re: [smartos-discuss] scaling questions

2017-07-30 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Thanks for your wonderful response to my post and I am very eager to really start getting SmartOS, with Triton Data Center, and Container Pilot setup for the initial POC of the project. I truly must admit that the more I read about SmartOS, Triton Data Center, and other component integrations like

Re: [smartos-discuss] scaling questions

2017-07-30 Thread Joshua M. Clulow
On 30 July 2017 at 15:56, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > More to the point, was that I came across SmartOS and Triton which seems to > be in much more alignment with that I want for the basis of the project to > build upon, but a question that I have was how well does it scale.

[smartos-discuss] scaling questions

2017-07-30 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Greetings All, Hope that everyone is doing well. For a current small container based project that I am working on, I have been researching and learning about all of the MANY options available as well as the competing technologies. The project that I am working on is really to utilize docker

[smartos-discuss] Re: [smartos-discuss] [smartos-discuss] [smartos-discuss] AMD Ryzen 7 Support

2017-07-30 Thread karthik
Hello DanielI would like to get GNOME 3,KDE Plasma 5 and MATE up running via prefix. pkgsrc MATE has failed to run on my desktop PC running XStreamOS, with the MATE panel does not load at all.A lot of the other pkgsrc desktops such as XFCE run well. I am currently given up using Windows 7 as

Re: [smartos-discuss] [smartos-discuss] [smartos-discuss] AMD Ryzen 7 Support

2017-07-30 Thread Daniel Kontsek
Hi Karthik, This is actually really interesting. I used to be a huge fan of Gentoo back in the days; drobbins FTW :) After I switched to enterprise Linux distros I kept portage prefix on my OS X for a long time. I have to say that for a developer/unix admin, portage is a great package manager

[smartos-discuss] Re: [smartos-discuss] [smartos-discuss] AMD Ryzen 7 Support

2017-07-30 Thread karthik
Hi DanielYes one can use other illumos distros which are more suitable for desktops. I use one of them: XStreamOS. I regularly use Xfce,WindowMaker and KDE 3.5 on my /opt/local on XStreamOS. SmartOS is a hypervisor,its best used that way. I have successfully manually bootstrapped upto stage 3

[smartos-discuss] Re: [smartos-discuss] [smartos-discuss] AMD Ryzen 7 Support

2017-07-30 Thread karthik
Yeah, am aware of that. SmartOS is a hypervisor useful in cloud setups. Thats why I use XStreamOS with the joyent pkgsrc package set for all my needs,both desktop web development workstation. Tribblix,openindiana or osdyson can also be used for desktop/workstation.Was surprised one of our