[SPAM] Announcing: nuOS 0.0.9.1b1 - a whole NEW FreeBSD distro, NOT a fork

[Alfred Perlstein]

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