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by johannes1234321 354 days ago
I ran Open Solaris for a while on my Laptop and it's quite nice. However the lack of support by practically any software vendor made many things a pain.

Since then even more stuff went to the Web, but I really I doubt Illumos got any extra traction.
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NexRebular 354 days ago
Most of our server infrastructure runs on illumos at $work. SmartOS/Triton handles our "cloud" and OmniOS runs our storage. The linux monoculture problem luckily can still be handled with zones and bhyve, and I do trust illumos developers' competence to deliver good quality secure software a lot more than linux developers' as well.

Now if FreeBSD (or indeed illumos) would get CUDA-support we could stop using linux for GPU nodes too.

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throw0101b 354 days ago
> Now if FreeBSD (or indeed illumos) would get CUDA-support we could stop using linux for GPU nodes too.

Could you not run Linux CUDA binaries under FreeBSD's Linuxulator?

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NexRebular 353 days ago
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...

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