I've been using OpenIndiana for a file server in my homelab since it came out and it's been quietly doing its job ever since without much issues. Coming from Linux it's not easy to find the equivalent commands of what I do on my other servers but it's also what I like about this project, it's another flavor of Unix to learn.

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vinc 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Edit: I checked the date and this server has been running since 2012 with just one re-installation a few years ago because it seemed faster than dealing with the issues I had after many years without upgrades. 13 years, nice!

Between late 2010 and 2012 I was playing with OI in a VM, and I can read a lot of excitement about it in my old emails :)

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spauldo 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Sun had excellent documentation. But of course Oracle crapped all over it...

If you can find documentation for Solaris 9 I imagine a lot of it would be the same. And there's the Solaris 8 Administration book from O'Reilly - I'm sure you can find PDFs of that floating around.

	▲	vinc 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes there's indeed a lot of doc available, but the main issue I discovered is figuring out what's still relevant when you mostly come from a Linux background. Thanks for the PDF suggestion, I didn't think about looking for a book to get more context! I learned a lot about Plan 9 by following a boot camp ran by SDF, I wish there was something like that to promote Illumos distributions