# [OmniOS-discuss] [developer] Introducing io-lx -- an attempt to port LX Zones to OmniOS

Jim Klimov jimklimov at cos.ru
Tue Mar 8 09:34:27 UTC 2016

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    8 марта 2016 г. 7:54:15 CET, "Joshua M. Clulow" <josh at sysmgr.org> пишет:
    >On 7 March 2016 at 22:37, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:
    >> Cool! Will this include modernized linux distro support?
    >
    >At Joyent, we have pre-built zone images (which we ship as "zfs send"
    >streams) for at least Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.04, Centos 6 and 7, Debian 7
    >and 8, and Alpine 3.  You could arguably distribute the same files in
    >a tar archive which you would extract into a zone root.  From what I
    >remember of the old days, a seed archive was the way to bootstrap an
    >LX zone.
    >
    >The LX brand software has been substantially enhanced since the Sun
    >EOL of the 2.4-era bits; e.g., support for modern system calls and
    >other Linux facilities, 64-bit support, etc.
    >
    >
    >Cheers.

    FWIW and IIRC, there were brand scripts for different linux distros and versions that could mix installation (packaged, tarhalled, etc) and configuration (console, net, etc).

    Jim
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