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So pretty much only GPU compute (CUDA) and exotic peripherals?

I don't see any ports dependency issues as there's been binary packages available forever. Even the install process is a lot faster than any linux I have to use at $work, not to mention easier to automate with autoinstall[0] if needed.

[0]https://man.openbsd.org/autoinstall.8

Not necessarily. Zones in illumos (and Solaris before) were designed from ground up to be secure in multitenant workloads[0]. It's quite different from the duct tape style[1] of linux containerization.

[0]https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa04/tech/full_papers/...

[1]Tape different things together and see if it holds.

s/I've/machine/;

Not counting GPU compute, what exactly is OpenBSD not useful for?

Try illumos with zones. We run all critical services on SmartOS nowadays. Even linux bhyve VMs get confined inside a zone.

or which one would have the most reliable zfs module state?

Can't get more reliable ZFS than on illumos. OmniOS on napp-it if you want GUI[0].

[0] https://www.napp-it.org/index_en.html

At a $company we were planning deploying TrueNAS as our new main NAS system. Then this happened and now everything is running OmniOS.

Linux is the primary target of OpenZFS

Which is worrying as there's a high risk of linux EEE breaking portability.

You're describing ZFS.

..running on illumos.

The idea that no one is making 80s or 90s style music is absurd

You can see new releases almost daily on e.g. NewRetroWave[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/newretrowave

It really is a tragedy how everything is being monoculturized to linux.

solid ZFS w/excellent networking NAS device.

illumos distros might be a good alternative. I have OmniOS[0] as a filer and SmartOS[1] running hypervisor duties on zones and bhyve.

[0] https://omnios.org [1] https://docs.smartos.org

Gotta get back in time. The Symbian S60/S80 platform will rise again!

https://www.macports.org

vibe coded

s/vibe/slop/;

Later on i once went to Helsinki to watch with my own eyes what people can program in a restriction of 4 to 64 kilobytes.

The Demoscene will save us all

works great with your Linux distro of choice.

...or you could go with FreeBSD. There's even a brand new release that just came out!

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/announce/

And there's also Triton[0] and vanilla SmartOS[1] it's based on

[0] https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/triton

[1] https://docs.smartos.org/

And as linux is becoming more and more a corpo controlled monoculture, the time has never been better to switch to *BSD and illumos where true freedom awaits.

...I wish a new company or a community open-source project would pick up from where Apple left off...

There's the Hello System[0]... not sure if it counts.

[0] https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/

I miss the Powerbook G3 series. That was some fantastically modular design.

for *BSD and illumos too

...and unofficial support for FreeBSD

https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/davinci-resolve-freebsd-ja...

SMB is a nightmare to set up if your host isn’t running Windows.

It's very easy on illumos based systems due the integrated SMB/CIFS service.

At least the two Descent: FreeSpace titles...

Or if you'd prefer not to contribute to linux monoculturalization, FreeBSD is available in addition to the other BSD variants and even illumos-based systems.

Unless you are running SUN CoolThreads(tm) servers!

Or you know... just use Linux

...where namespaces provide excellent technology for hiding malware making linux one of the best platforms to turn into a evil host.

I've even seen namespaces used for hiding malicious software in Ubuntu systems too.

It is possible, yes, but I would prefer to have full linux-free support for production use. There is on-going work for FreeBSD Cuda, though[0]. Just have to wait and see.

[0] https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2024-04-2024-06/#_part...