[FUG-BR] [FYI] the nuOS project - a whole NEW FreeBSD distro, NOT a fork

Segunda Julho 8 14:20:44 BRT 2013

2013/7/8 Marcelo Gondim <gondim em bsdinfo.com.br>:
> Em 08/07/13 10:53, Welkson Renny de Medeiros escreveu:
>> Viram essa?
>>
>> Não seria mais fácil contribuir com o projeto FreeBSD em vez de criar uma
>> nova variante?
>>
>> Welkson
>>
>> .....
>>
>> The nuOS project ( http://nuos.org ) is about bringing back the power to
>> the people! Currently, technical software, hardware and networking power.
>> Ultimately, the power of personal communication and community
>> self-organization. Currently made by geeks/nerds/hackers for
>> geeks/nerds/hackers, our intent is to create an entirely new software
>> ecosystem that promotes quality, easy to use software that is for
>> any-and-every man woman and child yet without lassoing us all into one herd
>> of sheeple. ;) Simple, common things should always be EASY. Complex,
>> amazing or never-before imagined things should always be POSSIBLE.
>>
>> We have a live image for download from our site. (Fully functional at 189
>> MB, just cat or dd to your 4 GB or larger usb drive or select it as a
>> flat-file virtual disk in your hypervisor of choice. It is not an ISO and
>> nuOS does not work well from optical media.) Or grab our source (currently
>> hosted by GitHub at
>> https://github.com/**CropCircleSys/nuOS<https://github.com/CropCircleSys/nuOS>
>> )
>> and build the entire system from any FreeBSD 9.1 system with one simple yet
>> deeply customizable command. (We only build/test on amd64 and would like
>> that to change in the future.)
>>
>> It is my belief that our software is PRODUCTION READY with our new beta
>> release. It might just be the answer to the management headaches you may be
>> having. Take the plunge tonight and find yourself breezing through your
>> day-job with "nu"-found ease tomorrow morning. If you're the comfortable
>> yet cautious type, watch the discussion for a week or two first instead.
>> Either way, we intend to cause a positive large and lasting motion in the
>> FreeBSD community.
>>
>> I hope you will give nuOS a look and offer your assessments and ask any
>> questions you have. Please tear it and us apart in discussion with the goal
>> of a better FreeBSD for us all! Documentation is one area that is sorely
>> lacking though it is mostly because Scott and I consider most of our code
>> clear enough to have been pretty self-documenting [for our purposes we've
>> had until now]. It is our hope that with the community's help we will bring
>> more and more of this platform to the high standard of quality that FreeBSD
>> is known for. We aren't trying to create our own new garden. We offer this
>> code with hopes that it, in part or in whole, might be some day included in
>> canonical FreeBSD releases.
>>
>> We have NO intention on forking FreeBSD and are instead developing a very
>> lightweight suite of tools which hopefully capture and collect modern best
>> practices while providing a testing and proving ground for advanced FreeBSD
>> features. We want to bring computing to more people, bring more computer
>> users to open source, bring more high-value and responsible open-source
>> users to FreeBSD and bring more current FreeBSD users guidance and
>> enlightenment regarding advanced features in the face of FreeBSD's typical
>> adherence to maximal backward compatibility, legacy support and solid
>> ground yet sometimes daunting array of intimately detailed configuration
>> choices.
>>
>> We do not seek to limit those choices or to shift the ground beneath
>> current FreeBSD users' feet. We seek to offer an alternative flavor of
>> default system for those interested in taking a step back from their
>> current perspective in order to take a giant flying leap forward. This
>> doesn't mean giving up anything in terms of compatibility or
>> configurabilty, quite the contrary. Throughout our evolution, we seek to
>> always maintain the environment that FreeBSD users have come to know and
>> love while reducing the issues that sometimes irk them. We simply seek to
>> provide a better way to structure, provision and maintain production
>> systems and development processes.
>>
>> Outline of features:
>>
>> Extends plain old FreeBSD 9.1 (RELEASE or STABLE) and maintains total
>> compatibility
>> We seek to remain nimble
>>      Expect a production-ready seal of approval to lag behind releases by no
>> more than a week or two
>>          and prebuilt images and packages
>>          e.g. releases like 9.2 and 10.0, et al
>>              Someone should be able to build it and use all applicable
>> features on 8.4 with ease
>>                  we simply haven't the time or inclination to even try
>> Default full ZFS filesystem layout, completely legacy-free
>>      Boot from ZFS, boot to ZFS
>>          If you'd like use all 100.0% of all your drives for one large zpool
>>          Use one large zpool for all of your
>>              filesystems
>>              block volumes
>>              alternate boot environments, including one called "rescue"
>> which is included
>>      NO partitions, not some tiny /, not even a /boot
>>          Just ZFS datasets in their infinite flexibility
>>              /etc is now a ZFS dataset of its own
>>                  How did we do it?
>>                      Decades of conventional wisdom says /etc must be on /.
>>                      Check it out, discuss the whys and the trade-offs.
>> nu_jail - provision all sorts of jails
>>      No guesswork
>>      Yet no cookie-cutter limitations
>>      Clean-room jails provisioned almost instantly
>>      ZFS clone of /etc and /var give you almost no storage overhead
>>      nullfs and/or unionfs mounts of /, /usr, /usr/local give you almost no
>> memory overhead
>>          Run 1,000 jails and 10,000 Apache instances
>>              they safely access the same executable memory pages
>>              they securely know not of one-another's existence
>>      Advanced intra-host networking with VIMAGE kernel by default, simplified
>>      Made for developers who want robustness, power and flexibility
>> streamlined for
>>          Unlimited development, testing, staging and production environments
>>      Uses all of the new jail and vnet features of FreeBSD 9.1
>>          We cleaned out all of the cruft left over from earlier versions
>>
>> That is just a taste of the features that we consider complete enough for
>> use in your PRODUCTION systems. There are many more features production
>> ready, our approach to package management for instance is in the early
>> stages and provides simple functionality but does so in a way that is
>> predictable, reliable and SOLID. It is also our strong commitment that we
>> will never cram any of these features down your throat. You may take some a
>> la carte without penalty and you may bring your own tools like pkg-ng,
>> portupgrade or portmaster.
>>
>> We never store data in strange places or formats, we use the standard
>> editable text configuration files and other sanctioned FreeBSD
>> ways-of-doing-things as a single source of truth. ALL of the nuOS system is
>> manageable from the command line and those utilities have no external
>> dependencies, just sh, sed, awk and make from the base FreeBSD system. APIs
>> still being built atop our core utilities and being packaged for
>> open-source release expose interfaces such as HTTP REST, SNMPv3 and Mailman
>> and may do so using advanced software packages from the ports collection.
>> Functionality will NOT be introduced in APIs, web-apps or GUIs that is not
>> equally usable, first-class, from the command line. Not even curses GUIs.
>> Curse curses!
>>
>> All that being said, the project is in it's infancy. Just breaching the
>> birth-canal, quite literally, with this announcement. It's not going to do
>> your work for you or cook you dinner just yet. What it offers is clean and
>> complete. Incomplete areas will be clearly marked with orange cones and
>> yellow tape. They will not impede your path should you decide to avoid them.
>>
>> It should be noted that the nuOS project is a loose not-for-profit
>> association currently sponsored by a for-profit corporation, Crop Circle
>> Systems, Inc. ( http://ccsys.com ) of which I am a founder. (A corporation
>> with a market cap of about that of a used Yugo, but a for-profit
>> corporation nonetheless.) All code released from the project is and shall
>> be covered by either the Simplified BSD license or Mozilla Public License
>> v2.0 if it is not simply placed into the public domain.
>>
>>
>>
>> Fonte: *Chad J. Milios on **freebsd-list*
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> Isso me lembra o que ocorre com as distribuições Linux. Ninguém está
> livre disso.
> Vão chamar isso de sabores de FreeBSD. rsrsrs
>
> []'s
>
> Gondim
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