Re: Old Sun Tech Still Moving, Just Not Where It Used To

From	groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld)
Newsgroups	comp.sys.sun.hardware, comp.unix.solaris
Subject	Re: Old Sun Tech Still Moving, Just Not Where It Used To
Date	2026-03-01 15:17 +0000
Organization	Groenveld.US
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References	<mhGdnRHmgelLaDz0nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@giganews.com> <20260228074549.09745020@ryz.dorfdsl.de>

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In article <20260228074549.09745020@ryz.dorfdsl.de>,
Marco Moock  <mm@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
>Is OpenIndiana supporting current hardware?

When other illumos consumers upstream their driver work, they flow
back into OI.

There is a new OI association and hopefully it will become a vehicle
to crowdsource more development that can be upstreamed to illumos.

>On FreeBSD, ZFS is default. Sadly, it doesn't support booting from
>encrypted datasets.

What is the advantage of encrypted root datasets over root pool
on geli(8)?

>I've tried Solaris on x86 in virtualbox just for fun. But that was all,
>as I do not have a license.

Solaris also runs on bhyve(8).

John
groenveld@acm.org

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Old Sun Tech Still Moving, Just Not Where It Used To mummycullen@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (MummyChunk) - 2026-02-27 12:55 -0500
  Re: Old Sun Tech Still Moving, Just Not Where It Used To Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-02-28 07:45 +0100
    Re: Old Sun Tech Still Moving, Just Not Where It Used To groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2026-03-01 15:17 +0000
      Re: Old Sun Tech Still Moving, Just Not Where It Used To Marco Moock <mm+solani@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-03-01 16:25 +0100
    Re: Old Sun Tech Still Moving, Just Not Where It Used To mummycullen@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (MummyChunk) - 2026-03-01 14:24 -0500

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