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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
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Ask HN: Cleanest way to manage Windows OS?
I heard about devbox [1] but I haven't tried it yet. Perhaps it could suit your needs.
Back in the day I used "Norton Ghost" to create a full image of a just-installed windows just in case I needed to go back in time. Windows includes a snapshot feature built-in but I did not really trusted it. These days you can use a "sysprep" tool [2] to create a similar system snapshot. Make a partition and keep everything you don't want deleted on drive D: or something :-).
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1: https://www.jetpack.io/devbox
2: like https://www.ntlite.com or https://fogproject.org
- Install windows 10 image to 50+ PC's
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Have i made my own linux distro? ^_^
For provisioning the machines base image consider FOG it uses PXE and can remotely provision dozens of machines using multicast.
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New machines with bloatware.
Same. We set up 1 device how we want to, then use FOG to clone the other devices
- Powershellskript für automatisierte Einrichtung von Arbeitsplatzrechner
- How to setup 50 windows 11 PC's at once
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How to : Proxmox Windows VM to discard changes after reboot
With standard computers, I usually deploy something like the fog project and automate the process over pxe with scheduled reboots. I guess you could do that as well with your VMs but that seems overkill.
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Best procedure to run a small computer lab.
you could setup a PXE server and automate installs. you could also clone them and reapply the image as needed. https://fogproject.org/ or lookup CloneZilla both are open source
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Windows imaging software for small business
Free: https://fogproject.org/ or https://clonezilla.org/
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Can you auto-wipe to base image without domain?
Microsoft used to have a free tool called SteadyState to do this, but it's been discontinued for a while. It took a different approach of undoing changes rather than restoring from image but it worked great with Kiosk mode. There are remote management tools that can wipe and reimage managed machines, most of them don't require an AD domain. As an example FOG Project.
What are some alternatives?
build - Armbian Linux build framework generates custom Debian or Ubuntu image for x86, aarch64, riscv64 & armhf
Clonezilla - Clonezilla is a partition or disk clone tool similar to Norton Ghost®. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (Server Edition).
kayak - Kayak (PXE-enabled network imaging of OmniOS)
Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
archcraft - // Source : ISO
tacticalrmm - A remote monitoring & management tool, built with Django, Vue and Go. [Moved to: https://github.com/amidaware/tacticalrmm]
ipd - illumos Project Discussion
MeshCentral - A complete web-based remote monitoring and management web site. Once setup you can install agents and perform remote desktop session to devices on the local network or over the Internet.
genode - Genode OS Framework
netdisco - A web-based network management tool.
chromium_os-raspberry_pi - Build your Chromium OS for Raspberry Pi 4B, Pi400 and the latest Raspberry Pi 5
tacticalrmm - A remote monitoring & management tool, built with Django, Vue and Go.