> Can SmartOS be used at all as a workstation for web app > development,say for java/php development with Eclipse? AFAIK we > can use it as a live image booted off CD/USB with everything in > memory, except for /opt . This is akin to a liveCD of linux like > Knoppix. I do some of my personal web development on illumos but > I use XStreamOS which has a desktop version. So for XStreamOS, > apart from the native IPS package set, I have options of Joyent's > pkgsrc,OpenCSW or gentoo prefix as package sets.
Unfortunately not, as SmartOS is a hypervisor most similar to VMware ESXi. What you could do is run a joyent-branded zone inside of SmartOS with X libraries and one of the X window managers, but you'd need an X server to bring the display back to, defeating the purpose of running SmartOS as a desktop, since you'd need another desktop to do that. You can of course run a web server with PHP and do your development on SmartOS in vi(1) or vim(1), or bring an integrated development environment's display over to your X server (your desktop). SmartOS is a cloud hypervisor for running servers. It's purposely designed to do that, and do it well. It's not a desktop operating system. -- Empathy is still a core engineering value. ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
