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

[Jim Klimov]

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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