SmartOS

Reader supplied reviews for SmartOS Average rating 8.5 from 4 review(s) What are your thoughts on SmartOS? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 202206022021121620201217201912192018101120171207 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 20220224 Rating: 7 Date: 2022-02-28 Votes: 2 SmartOS is designed to handle the biggest of datacentres but it will equally work well for desktop servers. It is on desktops and laptops where I see the brightest future for SmartOS. It is lacking a good intuitive GUI for primary management, but it has the capability to surpass all existing desktop OSes by being a desktop hypervisor of the future. It is in this role where any existing OS can be installed and run under the desktop hypervisor (SmartOS) and allow files and functions from one OS to interact with another OS all with complete security and separation. I have never seen this approach used in such a manner as I am describing, but I can see a tremendous potential for this approach to mould itself into an operating system to dominate all desktop systems into the future. It has the potential to remove many interoperability problems and allow existing operating systems to evolve into a holistic future OS. Of course, this is not what the creators intended, but it is a vision that I can see possible. And that is something that I thought would never be possible. I hope this insight will inspire people to make it happen. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20190731 Rating: 8 Date: 2019-10-30 Votes: 4 Beautiful robust operating system base like solaris, made by Joyent inspired by opensolaris coming from solaris 10 from Sun Microsystems. It has many features first of all for all ZFS. Personally I feel the lack of a reference hardware (as was SPARC) and the possibility of having the desktop development version, even minimal. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20181011 Rating: 10 Date: 2019-01-30 Votes: 7 Very robust OS and probably the best for container virtualization. Each container zone or KVM VM leaves on its own zfs file system, which can be snapshotted, rolled back, sent/received incrementally to a remote host. Data sets, like htdocs and db, can live on a separate zpool and given to a zone via lofs. You can build your own packages from sources by using pkgsrc environment and keep the applications up-to-date. The drawback is incompatibility with some hardware and leaving support for Linux LX containers. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 4 reader reviews of SmartOS...