# [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS doc

Frédéric Alix admdwrf at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 17:04:56 UTC 2014

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    Yep, a survival guide can be a good solution.
    It should show to Linux/FreeBSD admin how to use ZFS, Zones,
    Etherstub/Vnic, FSS, Capping memory, tuning the system.
    In what format can we do this if you are agree ?
    A page in the actual wiki ? a dedicated website ? cms ? pdf file ?

    See you, Fred

    2014-11-03 11:21 GMT+01:00 Steffen Kram <sk at kram.io>:

    > > I think an OmniOS Survival guide would be great.
    >
    > Theo, I think that would be a really good idea. In my opinion some pages
    > of the current wiki admin guide are already a very good first start (e.g.
    > networking and zones). What’s missing in my point of view are „Migration
    > Guides“ from other operating systems, especially linux and freebsd. Those
    > migration guides should cover all things that look „strange“ for
    > non-solaris folks e.g. partitioning, they should elaborate how to best use
    > the „specialities“ e.g. how to use smf, fmd ..., what are the benefits of
    > crossbow, what’s that automounter thing? Why is my home not in /home?
    >
    > Those are the questions I often get from people not familiar with
    > Illumos/Solaris. I already startet a couple of notes that would cover some
    > of those questions. Helping newbies or linux-sysadmins to get started with
    > omnios. So I would really like to contribute if there would be a real
    > community site.
    >
    > > If you have to put something like "newbies" in quotes and talk about
    > them as different than us, you are viewing this community in an unhealthy
    > way.  OmniOS is designed to take Illumos and all of its features and
    > package it in a way that makes a minimal and useful general operating
    > system targeted at servers and appliances.  Anyone with whom that vision
    > aligns is most welcome in the community and we should encourage efforts to
    > make them feel as an accepted part of the whole.
    >
    > I think the OmniOS community might be small but I would never call it
    > unhealthy and I must confess I like the familiar atmosphere.
    >
    > One thing why I prefer OmniOS about any other os/distro out there is its
    > focus on minimalism. This is something that totally contradicts with easy
    > accessibility for newbies. However, we as a community could do a better job
    > to pave the way for the more experienced linux/bsd sysadm who wants to dig
    > into OmniOS. This might be to provide a comprehensive guide how to run
    > typical software stacks. This should include how to build from the source,
    > how to package those things and how to run it (smf).
    >
    > Although I provide a public OmniOS package server myself. I would never
    > recommend to use omnios just with 3rd party repositories. I think the
    > provided build scripts are a wealthy source of information to build own
    > packages or to do a quick proof of concept but they should for sure not be
    > viewed as the „Missing OmniOS Distribution Packages“. Those packages might
    > be highly customized for someone else very own specific needs.
    >
    > What I’m getting at, it’s for sure that it would be nice to be more
    > attractive for a broader user base, but all efforts should be in the spirit
    > of the existing OmniOS. Hey, that’s why the existing user base is here in
    > the first place. So let’s educate people on how to use OmniOS to unleash
    > it’s full potential and don’t try to just provide them with easy to use
    > pre-packaged solutions!
    >
    > Let me close with a pointer to the scala community. They had a similar
    > problem for a long time, and since they come up with
    > http://docs.scala-lang.org the documentation is constantly improving. I
    > really like this approach of a comprehensive website, containing in-depth
    > guides, easy how-tos for primers and handy cheat-cheats for the daily use.
    > I’m ready to contribute to a great community doc and willing to invest time
    > to build it if others also jump in!
    >
    > Cheers, Steffen
    >
    > —
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