Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc

From	cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
Newsgroups	comp.unix.solaris
Subject	Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Date	2025-10-19 21:19 +0000
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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In article <10d35iu$1gf7$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>,
Jesse Rehmer  <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> wrote:
>On Oct 19, 2025 at 10:26:53 AM CDT, "Dan Cross" <Dan Cross> wrote:
>
>> Note, as a minor aside, "illumos" is usually left uncapitalized.
>> I'm afraid I do not know the origin of this styling, but some
>> folks are known to get a bit salty about it.  :-)
>
>Thanks for pointing that out. I hadn't particularly noticed the distinction.
>Now I may go down a rabbit hole looking for the reason.

No worries!  And I don't mean to make a big deal out of it; it's
just a small thing I noticed.

>Over the last few years I've grown a strong desire to use anything that isn't
>Linux for personal projects. Still love Linux, but after 20 years of personal
>and professional use, I miss the variety that existed in the UNIX space once
>upon a time.
>
>Initially switched to FreeBSD, and still enjoy it, but got the itch to play
>with Solaris. Admittedly, I hadn't paid attention to OpenSolaris much less
>illumos after the Oracle acquisition, but was excited to find a thriving
>community.

I definitely identify with this, and I have found it useful to
maintain a number of systems at home.  Diversity is good to
provide depth of experience.

>Found talks on YouTube by Bryan Cantrill and am fascinated with what they are
>doing at Oxide Computer, not just on the hardware side, but also what they're
>building around SmartOS. Watching almost every company become trapped in a
>RedHat, VMWare, and Dell/HP world - I'm excited for possibilities.

Another minor quibble, but Helios (the Oxide variant of illumos)
is not based on SmartOS, but rather started with OmniOS CE.

In many regards, the host OS is a bit of an implementation
detail for Oxide hardware, though it is true that we use a lot
of functionality from the base OS (zones, ZFS, etc).  In my
opinion, the holistic boot approach and minimization of firmware
is more interesting.

	- Dan C.

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Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2025-10-16 23:43 -0400
  Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> - 2025-10-17 19:33 +0000
    Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2025-10-18 01:37 +0000
      Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> - 2025-10-18 15:00 +0000
    Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm+solani@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-10-18 07:44 +0200
      Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> - 2025-10-18 15:19 +0000
        Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-10-19 10:21 +0200
          Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-10-19 15:26 +0000
            Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> - 2025-10-19 17:02 +0000
              Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm+solani@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-10-19 19:26 +0200
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> - 2025-10-19 19:16 +0000
                Zoom on FreeBSD (was Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2025-10-20 12:36 +0000
              Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-10-19 21:19 +0000
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> - 2025-10-20 00:09 +0000
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2025-10-20 11:45 +0000
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-10-20 14:40 +0000
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2025-10-23 21:32 +0000
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-10-24 18:35 +0000
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2025-10-31 17:16 +0000
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) Tom Mix <tommix@dev.null> - 2025-11-01 14:56 +0000
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-11-08 00:58 +0000
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-10-20 14:56 +0000
    Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> - 2025-11-20 11:41 +0000
    Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Frank Winkler <usenet@f.winkler-ka.de> - 2026-02-17 18:19 +0100
      Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm+solani@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-02-17 20:59 +0100
      blame game (was Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2026-02-17 22:42 +0000
        Re: blame game (was Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> - 2026-02-19 10:11 +0000
          Re: blame game (was Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2026-02-19 13:31 +0000
            Re: blame game (was Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> - 2026-02-19 18:46 +0000
              Re: blame game (was Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2026-02-19 20:57 +0000
                Re: blame game (was Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> - 2026-02-20 09:04 +0000

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