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by Calamityjanitor 1335 days ago
I've been running OmniOS on my home NAS since 2015. In theory you should be able to compile and install any open source software on OmniOS/Illumos, but let’s be honest, the world assumes you’re running linux. Devs already have enough issues supporting different linux distros, sometimes you’ll see specific BSD support which can help but good luck if your issue is Illumos distro specific. Sometimes fixing these issues can be interesting and offer teaching in fundamental differences in unix.