Toasterson<p>Poll Time: Are around 5-10 people interested in a luanti server with Trains? Running on <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OpenIndiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenIndiana</span></a> of course :)</p>
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Volker A. Brandt :meckenheim:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsd.network/@dexter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dexter</span></a></span> Would indeed. How about contacting @toasterson who is managing the <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/OpenIndiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenIndiana</span></a> foundation? Maybe join forces. As to $currency, count me in.</p>
Toasterson<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hostux.social/@danmcd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>danmcd</span></a></span> @matthew@social.retroedge.tech <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stratacast" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>stratacast</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@subnetspider" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>subnetspider</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@oxidecomputer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>oxidecomputer</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OpenIndiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenIndiana</span></a> has it's first official Donation Option here: <a href="https://opencollective.com/openindiana" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">opencollective.com/openindiana</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> more options are in the works. Including a Association for Fundraising, Marketing and related tasks.</p>
Dan McDonald<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.retroedge.tech/users/matthew" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>matthew</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stratacast" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>stratacast</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@subnetspider" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>subnetspider</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://hostux.social/tags/OpenIndiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenIndiana</span></a> is desktop focussed.</p><p><a href="https://hostux.social/tags/OmniOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OmniOS</span></a> is single-server-or-VM-guest focussed.</p><p><a href="https://hostux.social/tags/SmartOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmartOS</span></a> is hypervisor-focussed.</p><p>All are <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a> distributions. I know SmartOS has paid-support options (though usually we support <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/Triton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Triton</span></a> Data Center deployments).</p><p>Also <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a> distros include dedicated appliance/device user like <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@oxidecomputer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>oxidecomputer</span></a></span> 's Helios or RackTop's BrickStore.</p><p>That help?</p>
Felix Palmen :freebsd: :c64:<p>Just released: <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/swad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>swad</span></a> 0.7! 😎 </p><p>Swad is the "Simple Web Authentication Daemon". If you're looking for a solution to add cookie/form <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/authentication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authentication</span></a> to your <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/nginx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nginx</span></a> reverse proxy, or maybe even a <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/lightweight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lightweight</span></a> alternative to <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Anubis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anubis</span></a> which leaves the actual proxying to nginx, this might be for you! It is designed for use with nginx' auth_request, written in pure C, with minimal dependencies (zlib and, depending on build options, openssl/libressl and/or libpam), and compiles to a small binary (currently between 150kiB and less than 300kiB depending on compiler and target platform).</p><p>Swad should work on many <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/posix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>posix</span></a> (and almost) systems. It's actually tested on <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> (in "production" use, but on a very low-traffic private site), and quick functionality tests also done on <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a>) and <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OpenIndiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenIndiana</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Illumos</span></a>, open-source <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solaris</span></a> descendant).</p><p>As announced, this release doesn't bring any new features (in terms of WHAT it can do), but great improvements "under the hood", that should help performance at least on some platforms, see release notes for swad 0.7.</p><p>Read more, and download the .tar.xz (to build and install it 😆) here:<br><a href="https://github.com/Zirias/swad" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/Zirias/swad</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Der Brüsseler 🇪🇺<p>Gerade bin ich zufällig auf <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OpenIndiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenIndiana</span></a> gestoßen – <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OpenSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSolaris</span></a> lebt weiter! Es ist großartig, dass solche Projekte dank der Community weiterhin existieren.<br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unix</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/SystemV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SystemV</span></a></p>
Thomas Munro<p>Not sure if I can reach any <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/omnios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>omnios</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/openindiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openindiana</span></a> people here, but here goes: does anyone know if there is a well maintained GCP image that could be used to run some flavour of illumos? PostgreSQL uses Cirrus CI with Linux, (Free|Open|Net)BSD, Windows, macOS images. illumos is a missing target!</p>
Toasterson<p>We are forming a Association! For <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OpenIndiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenIndiana</span></a> and larger <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a> project funding.</p><p><a href="https://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2025-February/027258.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">openindiana.org/pipermail/open</span><span class="invisible">indiana-discuss/2025-February/027258.html</span></a></p><p>And a small followup with Clarifications</p><p><a href="https://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2025-February/027271.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">openindiana.org/pipermail/open</span><span class="invisible">indiana-discuss/2025-February/027271.html</span></a></p><p>Let people know! We are looking for 25 Initial Members. We are at 12. No coding required. Membership fee will be at about 30 Euros per year. The rest is all Donations.</p><p>Join now to help vote on issues and the Formation!</p><p>:BoostOK: :ReplyOK:</p>
Olaf Bohlen<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>clive</span></a></span> occasionally, I daily use <a href="https://norden.social/tags/OpenIndiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenIndiana</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a></p>
TomAoki<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.bike/@chrisgerhard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>chrisgerhard</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>david_chisnall</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@darrenmoffat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>darrenmoffat</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@alfonsosiciliano" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>alfonsosiciliano</span></a></span> <br>Maybe there would be significant differences about kernel memory management between <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solaris</span></a> based (including <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OpenSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSolaris</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OpenIndiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenIndiana</span></a>) OS'es and <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a>. On <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a>, if there are large enough RAM and swap is used only for backend of tmpfs and for crash dumps, there should be completely no problem with swap on ZVOLs or swap file on ZFS.<br>But once swap is used for paging/swaping, ZFS code possibly fails to allocate memory to handle paging/swapping, thus panics with (usually) double fault.</p>
Toasterson<p>Since I lost my pinned post I thought I would share this here again: You can support development of <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/openindiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openindiana</span></a> and my <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/rustlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rustlang</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rust</span></a> tools for zone management and package building via GitHub Sponsors<br><a href="https://github.com/sponsors/Toasterson" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/sponsors/Toasterson</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>If you prefer a direct support option there is also a Patreon available <a href="https://linktr.ee/toasterson" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">linktr.ee/toasterson</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. I have some commercial Interest in several things I do but financing some Testhardware for ARM independantly would be nice. It makes negotiations simpler.</p>
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