Multi-OS PXE-booting from FreeBSD 12: Linux, illumos and more (pt. 4)

[New to Gemini? Have a look at my Gemini FAQ.] This article was bi-posted to Gemini and the Web; Gemini version is here: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/kraileth/neunix/2021/multi-os_pxe-booting_from_fbsd_pt4.gmi Post 1 of this mini series is about what lead me to do this in the first place, features a little excursion for people new to PXE and details the setup …

Testing OmniOSce on real hardware

[edit 07-02]Added images to make the article a little prettier[/edit] Last year I decided to take a first look at OmniOSce. It's a community-driven continuation of the open source operating system that originated at OmniTI. It is also an Illumos distribution and as such a continuation of the former Open Solaris project by Sun that …

Exploring OmniOS in a VM (2/2)

This is the second part of my post about "exploring OmniOS in a VM". The first post showed my adventures with service and user management on a fresh installation. My initial goal was to make the system let me ssh into it: Now the SSH daemon is listening and I've created an unprivileged user. So …

Exploring OmniOS in a VM (1/2)

While I've been using Unix-like systems for quite a while and heavily for about a decade, I'm completely new to operating systems of the Solaris/Illumos family. So this post might be of interest for other *BSD or Linux users who want to take a peek at an Illumos distribution - or to the Illumos people …

A look beyond the BSD teacup: OmniOS installation

Five years ago I wrote a post about taking a look beyond the Linux teacup. I was an Arch Linux user back then and since there were projects like ArchBSD (called PacBSD today) and Arch Hurd, I decided to take a look at and write about them. Things have changed. Today I'm a happy FreeBSD …