OmniOS: A Journey into the Land of Illumos
It was a crisp spring day on March 25, 2024, when I decided to take a detour from my usual BSD and Linux haunts. My destination? OmniOS, a distribution of the Illumos operating system. Little did I know I was about to embark on a journey that would challenge my assumptions and expand my Unix horizons. The Land of pfexec The first surprise came when I tried to elevate my privileges. No sudo? No doas? In OmniOS, I discovered, we pfexec. It’s like stepping into a parallel universe where everything is familiar, yet slightly off-kilter. I found myself chanting “pfexec, pfexec” like a mantra as I navigated this new landscape. ...