Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 15:28:52 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [SPAM] Announcing: nuOS 0.0.9.1b1 - a whole NEW FreeBSD distro, NOT a fork Message-ID: <51D9EBA4.2060207@mu.org> In-Reply-To: <51D9E641.5020905@pathscale.com> References: <51D9E499.103@nuos.org> <51D9E641.5020905@pathscale.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 7/7/13 3:05 PM, "C. Bergström" wrote: > On 07/ 8/13 04:58 AM, Chad J. Milios wrote: > > <snip> > >> 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> > ------------ > 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? It seems pretty obvious to me that the contribution is that all this stuff works out of the box. That is pretty nice. -- Alfred Perlstein VP Software Engineering, iXsystems
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?51D9EBA4.2060207>