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Today is my last day with @smartosorg and @triton_dc .

I will still be in greater - #illumos .

Also both #smartos and #triton developers and users are quite a good community!

for my #illumos friends out there i just published a video showcasing doors! i wrote some C, and then showed off some interoperability by adding in some Rust. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq9V8fvE_B0

Firefly – a small failsafe image for illumos based distributions. Firefly is an open-source, minimalistic failsafe boot image designed for illumos-based... https://archiveos.org/firefly/ #solaris #illumos #unix #operatingsystem

@ptribble

Quick question!
I have a SUN SunFIRE v880, but no login to the RSC card and no OS to boot from.

But I am thinking if I can create somekind of LiveCD with Tribblix and run rscadm from that one? Is that possible with Tribblix?

#sun #solaris #illumos

It's interesting to see #illumos listed as slop-free on that list. This made me try OpenIndiana again, and interestingly, besides Linux and FreeBSD (and I guess Windows), it's the only operating system that supports my accursed nvidia 2080 card (it does /not/ support my ethernet card, which seems somehow opposite of the expected way that would turn out).

(Now I wonder though, how much of that is due to the fact that their development just moves slower than anything else,... It'd be nice to see a policy or statement.)

Do you use #OpenZFS? Do you ship a product or service with #ZFS in it? Do you work on a storage- or filesystem-related project and are interested in how ZFS could make it better? Are you interested in the future of software-defined storage?

If any of these are you, you should consider presenting at the OpenZFS User and Developer Summit 2026! Our CfP is open until September 11, and we'd love to hear from you!

https://openzfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_User_and_Developer_Summit_2026

#Linux #FreeBSD #illumos #NAS #homelab

@Toxic_Flange I'm glad I'm not the only one to suffer USB-type panics in #illumos - it's the only wrinkle I've had using it in production for this database.

I didn't need fast USB (it's just a JetKVM), so I've been using this as a workaround;

echo "exclude: xhci" >> /etc/system

It was hard to swallow the cost of 256GB of DDR5; but I've pushed this poor 2.2TB database as far as I can with a Threadripper 1950X and consumer NVME drives... next iteration:

9550X3D + 256GB RAM
2x7.68TB U.2 NVME Drives (Kioxia CD8)
Optane 990

I'm hoping to triple performance, because my current setup is barely hanging on to it's workload. Next question: #illumos or #linux ?

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/117143645809189838

illumos is great for those platforms

#illumos #SmartOS #OwnYourData

Months ago (or a year ago, by now), I bought a few Intel N150 mini PCs for dirt cheap, between 120 and 150 Euro each (depending on the RAM).
Two of them sat untouched on my desk for months, almost making me regret buying them.
Today, I'm glad I did: considering how high hardware prices are getting, having a little backup supply doesn't hurt.
And one of them is about to host SmartOS.

#illumos #OwnYourData

Two new preprints from my #research center!

"Is Cleaning Costly? Evaluating the -fret-cleanAnti-Return-Oriented Programming Mitigation from the OpenBSD Operating System" — an evaluation and critique of #cybersecurity #engineering: https://briancallahan.net/preprints/Callahan_Shaikh_IEEE_CARS_2026.pdf (and #blog post about it: https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260811.html)

"Write Your Way to Better Cybersecurity Awareness Training with Active Word Games" — about identifying creating cybersecurity training as a site of learning worthwhile of studying: https://briancallahan.net/preprints/Wroblewski_et_al_IEEE_CARS_2026.pdf

#academic #academia #professor #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #unix #linux #illumos #solaris #compiler #compilers #cybersec #cyber #informationsecurity #infosec

For the interested, you can read a preprint of our latest #research on the #OpenBSD -fret-clean flag here:

https://briancallahan.net/preprints/Callahan_Shaikh_IEEE_CARS_2026.pdf

#freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #bsd #linux #unix #solaris #illumos #compiler #compilers #llvm #gcc #rop #cybersecurity #cybersec #cyber #security #infosec #informationsecurity

Made a small PR towards Forgejo to allow its build on NetBSD (I found out that the pkgsrc-wip contributor is already working on packaging it, but was blocked) and illumos - as these are broken at the moment, in 16.x branch: pretty much dumb addition or removal of type cast to int64 in one particular module.

#Forgejo #illumos #NetBSD #pkgsrc

@gyptazy Danke Dir! Wir fanden es auch super 1) einen zu haben und 2) soviel Interesse zu sehen! Danke auch an das Team der #FrOSCon21 #illumos

Ansonsten nerden wir ein wenig zu den Themen #illumos, OpenSource und allgemein IT herum. https://fraosug.de/ #fraosug

NexentaStor – a Unix operating system based on the illumos kernel and is a direct fork of OpenSolaris. NextenaStor provides a graphical and text-based interface for system management. https://archiveos.org/nexentastor/ #solaris #illumos #unix

Thank you @FrOSCon team for all your work and making this conference so lovely. Also a big thanks for everybody involved in our #illumos stand. Lots of shirts handed over to old and new people involved. #froscon

If you’ve made any #illumos contribution, be at #froscon - get your illumos shirt for free

Little shout out to the #FOSS worlds underdog #opensource OS projects:
- #illumos
- #HaikuOS
- #DragonFlyBSD
- #Redox
- #GNUHurd
- #ReactOS

All cool projects that always need some extra hands.

Everything is ready for the #illumos stand at @FrOSCon

Submitted a small (and likely not so universal) fix for the #Forgejo dependency to restore the build-ability on #illumos (for the dependency itself and post-16.0.0 Forgejo).

A wild #blog post appears!

I discuss a new #research publication: an empirical evaluation of the #OpenBSD -fret-clean flag. We examine the history of the mitigation, measure its costs, and deliberate whether or not it is worth keeping.

Worth the read if you like security and/or compilers.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260811.html

#freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #bsd #linux #unix #solaris #illumos #compiler #compilers #llvm #gcc #rop #cybersecurity #cybersec #cyber #security #infosec #informationsecurity

On second thought, I realize only now that part of the team tested littleFedi on FreeBSD and OpenBSD, I also tested it on NetBSD and illumos... and no one has actually tested the Linux builds yet.

The exact opposite of what usually happens 🙂

#littleFedi #OwnYourData #RunBSD #illumos #Linux

Morgen (Dienstag, 21.04.) ist wieder #FRAOSUG -- wir treffen uns ab 19 Uhr online und nerden ein wenig rum. Erwin erzählt etwas zu lokalen DNS-Root-Servern, und jeder kann seine persönlichen #illumos-Themen mitbringen. https://fraosug.de/

@alanc @Radio_Azureus

I had to write that FGA in part because *everyone* forgot about the SAF. (-:

#Illumos #OmniOS #SmartOS #OpenIndiana #Tribblix #ServiceAccessFacility

@alanc

Service management, as I mentioned, began as the domain of the much older Service Access Facility, which comes from #Unix S5R4 in 1988.

The #Illumos manual page for the sacadm command (for one) is dated 1992, and the Illumos #ServiceAccessFacility dates back to the days of #Solaris 2.

The use of sacadm/pmadm/ttyadm/nlsadmin in Illumos et al. is the same now as it was when Æleen Frisch wrote about them for Solaris 2 in xyr book in 1995.

http://jdebp.info/FGA/unix-service-access-facility.html

@Radio_Azureus

Auch diesen Monat reden wir kommenden Dienstag (17.03.) bei der #FRAOSUG wieder online über alles Mögliche und Unmögliche zu #illumos, #OmniOS, #SmartOS und #OpenIndiana. Und außerdem noch über alles mögliche andere unix-affine, was uns so einfällt. Wer mit-nerden will, ist herzlich willkommen und findet sich gegen 19 Uhr auf dem Senfcall-BBB-Server ein: https://public.senfcall.de/FRAOSUG20260317

Morgen gibt es wieder ein Treffen der #FRAOSUG -- wir reden über alles Mögliche und Unmögliche aus der IT-Welt, ein wenig über #OmniOS und #OpenIndiana und vieles andere. Wir treffen uns auf Senfcall, Link siehe https://fraosug.de/ -- jede/r ist herzlich eingeladen! #illumos

Nachher ist wieder #FRAOSUG-Onlinetreffen. Diesmal geht es um #illumos und mehr! Los geht es wie immer um 19 Uhr. Details und BBB-Link hier: https://fraosug.de/ Alle sind willkommen, jeder darf eigene Themen beisteuern.

Und morgen abend ist völlig überraschend schon wieder der dritte Dienstag im Monat... #FRAOSUG-Dienstag! Wir treffen uns um 19 Uhr zu zwanglosem Austausch über alle möglichen IT-Themen, mit einem leichten Schwerpunkt auf #illumos-basierten OSen wie #SmartOS, #OmniOS und #OpenIndiana -- es gibt auch News über den Versuch, einen "Förderverein" für OpenIndiana aufzubauen. Wir treffen uns hier: https://public.senfcall.de/fraosug20250218 Jeder ist willkommen, mitzudiskutieren!

Morgen Abend sprechen wir bei unserem Online-Treffen bei der https://fraosug.de/ ab 19 Uhr über "Paketierung für illumos": pkgsrc, IPS, vielleicht sogar SVR4, aber auch ganz allgemein, was es für Strategien gibt, gute Pakete zu bauen #FRAOSUG #illumos #pkgsrc

Morgen (Dienstag 16.01.) ab 19 Uhr sprechen wir bei der FRAOSUG online über OpenIndiana, aber nicht nur... wer mitmachen will, ist herzlich eingeladen: https://fraosug.de/ #FRAOSUG #OpenIndiana #illumos

Am 17.10.2023 um 19 Uhr findet unser 107. Fraosug-Treffen statt.

Diesmal mit dem Thema "Open Source SamFS auf illumos", einem Votrag von Carsten Grzemba.

https://fraosug.de/termine/107-treffen-open-source-samfs-auf-illumos/

#illumos #OpenSource #FRAOSUG