illumos
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Jan 21, 2026first mention
Oct 15, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“If it really bothers you OpenBSD (edit: thanks for the reminder TimTheTinker) and Illumos don't allow overcommit at all”
“Can't get more reliable ZFS than on illumos.”
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“I'm impressed that illumos is still going strong.”
was on the 2010 announcement callon “illumos”
“I really enjoy working with illumos on my home server.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- illumos 2 mentions
- Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support 1 mention
- cp: -r or -R? 1 mention
- Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead 1 mention
- NetBSD 11.0 Released 1 mention
- How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS 1 mention
Also written as Illumos. Data: illumos.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 9
“although illumos or 9front becoming the preferred build environment for libreboot would make my inner nerd happy”
“Illumos also treats the two differently, but in a subtly different way:”
“If it really bothers you OpenBSD (edit: thanks for the reminder TimTheTinker) and Illumos don't allow overcommit at all”
“at least they seem larger than Solaris / Illumos”
“Can't get more reliable ZFS than on illumos.”
“Illumos has the original.”
“It's cool that Solaris/Illumos is "true blooded unix"”
“I'm impressed that illumos is still going strong.”
“I really enjoy working with illumos on my home server.”