opensolaris
The last official OpenSolaris code with pNFS (by kofemann)
kayak
Kayak (PXE-enabled network imaging of OmniOS) (by omniosorg)
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| 3 | 3 | |
| 19 | 16 | |
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| 0.0 | 6.2 | |
| over 10 years ago | 13 days ago | |
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opensolaris
Posts with mentions or reviews of opensolaris.
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- OpenGrok: Fast and usable source code search and cross reference engine
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Where can I find the source code for OpenSolaris?
OpenSolaris source is in an archived repo: https://github.com/kofemann/opensolaris
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How much longer can it go on?
I doubt it. Solaris 10 would report uptime based on the current time minus the system boot time. Changing the clock alters the uptime.
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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing opensolaris and kayak you can also consider the following projects:
opengrok - OpenGrok is a fast and usable source code search and cross reference engine, written in Java
polycube - eBPF/XDP-based software framework for fast network services running in the Linux kernel.
omnios-build - Build system for OmniOS
fedora-coreos-config-custom - Custom Fedora CoreOS builds for homelab servers and clients
bpf-iptables - An #eBPF and #XDP iptables firewall
homelab - Terraform provisioner for Kubernetes homelab