Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 05:05:53 +0700 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22C=2E_Bergstr=F6m=22?= <cbergstrom@pathscale.com> To: "Chad J. Milios" <freebsd-list@nuos.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [SPAM] Announcing: nuOS 0.0.9.1b1 - a whole NEW FreeBSD distro, NOT a fork Message-ID: <51D9E641.5020905@pathscale.com> In-Reply-To: <51D9E499.103@nuos.org> References: <51D9E499.103@nuos.org>
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On 07/ 8/13 04:58 AM, Chad J. Milios wrote:
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> Outline of features:
>
> Extends plain old FreeBSD 9.1 (RELEASE or STABLE) and maintains total
> compatibility
> We seek to remain nimble
> Expect a production-ready seal of approval to lag behind releases
> by no more than a week or two
> and prebuilt images and packages
> e.g. releases like 9.2 and 10.0, et al
> Someone should be able to build it and use all applicable
> features on 8.4 with ease
> we simply haven't the time or inclination to even try
> Default full ZFS filesystem layout, completely legacy-free
> Boot from ZFS, boot to ZFS
> If you'd like use all 100.0% of all your drives for one large
> zpool
> Use one large zpool for all of your
> filesystems
> block volumes
> alternate boot environments, including one called "rescue"
> which is included
> NO partitions, not some tiny /, not even a /boot
> Just ZFS datasets in their infinite flexibility
> /etc is now a ZFS dataset of its own
> How did we do it?
> Decades of conventional wisdom says /etc must be
> on /.
> Check it out, discuss the whys and the trade-offs.
> nu_jail - provision all sorts of jails
> No guesswork
> Yet no cookie-cutter limitations
> Clean-room jails provisioned almost instantly
> ZFS clone of /etc and /var give you almost no storage overhead
> nullfs and/or unionfs mounts of /, /usr, /usr/local give you
> almost no memory overhead
> Run 1,000 jails and 10,000 Apache instances
> they safely access the same executable memory pages
> they securely know not of one-another's existence
> Advanced intra-host networking with VIMAGE kernel by default,
> simplified
> Made for developers who want robustness, power and flexibility
> streamlined for
> Unlimited development, testing, staging and production
> environments
> Uses all of the new jail and vnet features of FreeBSD 9.1
> We cleaned out all of the cruft left over from earlier versions
<trolling side comment>
omg you've created Solaris
</trolling side comment>
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If you're going to spam commercial stuff with absolutely no technically
interesting details - please keep it brief at the least.
Generally people will be curious about
What are you actually adding to the ISO which FBSD-current can't do? If
it's not upstream already - will it be contributed upstream?
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