kayak
Kayak (PXE-enabled network imaging of OmniOS) (by omniosorg)
omnios-build
Build system for OmniOS (by omniosorg)
kayak | omnios-build | |
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3 | 8 | |
15 | 85 | |
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7.4 | 9.6 | |
15 days ago | 8 days ago | |
Shell | Shell | |
- | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
kayak
Posts with mentions or reviews of kayak.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-16.
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Where can I find the source code for OpenSolaris?
You're familiar with this project, right? https://www.illumos.org/ It is a continuation of Open Solaris, and is 100% open source. There is a subreddit for IllumOS. There are a couple very usable systems based on that code base as well. i.e. a stable server OS https://omnios.org and rolling release desktop/multi-purpose OS https://openindiana.org Both run the Solaris kernel and tools. If UNIX and operating systems development really interests you, you might also look at BSD UNIX. SunOS version 4 was based on BSD UNIX. Solaris (aka SunOS 5) was a hybrid BSD/SystemV OS. If I were just starting out learning UNIX operating system code, I would start with Minix (an OS written with teaching OS design in mind) and NetBSD (carefully minted OS to run on any architecture, developed slowly because of its high coding standards).
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Getting and restoring a Sun Ultra 1 Workstation
OmniOS is a still actively maintained Solaris derivative - maybe that will run? https://omnios.org
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Is anybody running HA router or firewall on a stick? How? Why? How's it working out?
Neat ideas. Have you looked into MAAS for PXE booting? It might do a lot of the stuff you're looking for. If that's too heavy, I've also seen a lighter PXE manager called Kayak for OmniOS... it's written in python, so if you wanted to port it, it might not be hard. https://omnios.org/setup/pxe https://github.com/omniosorg/kayak
omnios-build
Posts with mentions or reviews of omnios-build.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-26.
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I just discovered Illumos based distributions, what are the main differences between those and FreeBSD ?
key features at OmniOS Community Edition
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Looking for more ideas
OS Challenge: Try out an Illumos (OpenSolaris) image in a VM (there are Solaris kernel options available in Proxmox). If you want something fun, install OmniOS and create a Linux zone on it. So cool to run Linux on Solaris. https://omnios.org/
- [1st post] My meager but COMPLETELY fanless home server
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Virtual machine efficiency
While UTM is much better at resource usage, it's not perfect. Virtualbox seems to emulate more of a system instead of passing it through to the hypervisor and so is better for running more unusual OSes. I have two VMs there running Illumos which I have yet to figure out how to boot in UTM. A problem that I think is related to UTM's greater use of the hypervisor is that you can't suspend and resume VMs that use it instead of being emulated, so I've still got a few VMs hanging around in Virtualbox which spend most of their time suspended. Finally, what stops me from using UTM at work is that you can't use it as a Vagrant provider. This is incredibly annoying, as the lack of a decent virtualization application makes the otherwise very nice M1 Macs nothing more than pretty toys. I expect that this glaring lack will be fixed within the next couple of years.
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Just getting started
Can anyone recommend a good place to start learning OmniOS? Coming from Debain world. Other than the documentation on omnios.org, I only found a few blog posts here and there...
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I was thinking about more "exotic" OS's
OpenIndiana is pretty neat. It has quite a few cool features like Zones, DTrace and Crossbow. ZFS is another big feature but you have already said that you don't really care about that. Hardware support is kinda lacking, but improving. Also it's rolling release so if you're like me and don't like that, OmniOS might be a better option; it's another illumos based OS.
- “LLVM-Libc” C Standard Library
- OmniOS 151040 stable is out - ReleaseNotes.md
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kayak and omnios-build you can also consider the following projects:
fedora-coreos-config-custom - Custom Fedora CoreOS builds for homelab servers and clients
build - Armbian Linux build framework generates custom Debian or Ubuntu image for x86, aarch64, riscv64 & armhf