Dyson — Debian GNU/kOpenSolaris

Dyson now can serve and mount NFS shares.

To make Dyson a NFS client you need to install the "illumos-nfs-common" package,
to make a NFS server - "illumos-nfs-server" (this will pull "illumos-nfs-common").

Steps to became a NFS server:

1. Make sure you use "unstable" suite:
   

   # cat /etc/apt/sources.list
   deb http://apt.osdyson.org unstable main
   

2. Update APT cache:
   

   # apt-get update

3. Make a backup boot environment:
   

   # beadm create nfs

   
   Just in case something goes wrong: installing NFS server will update your kernel. In any case you will have to reboot.
4. Install packages:
   

   # apt-get install illumos-nfs-server

5. Reboot to the same boot environment (not the one you created):
   

   # reboot

6. Make sure services are running and not in maintenance state:
   

   # svcs -a | grep nfs                                                                                                          
   disabled       21:46:13 svc:/network/nfs/nlockmgr:default                                                                                                   
   disabled       21:46:15 svc:/network/nfs/status:default                                                                                                     
   disabled       21:46:17 svc:/network/nfs/mapid:default                                                                                                      
   disabled       21:46:18 svc:/network/nfs/client:default                                                                                                     
   disabled       21:46:19 svc:/network/nfs/cbd:default                                                                                                        
   disabled       21:46:23 svc:/network/nfs/server:default
   
   # svcadm enable -r nfs/server
   

I've installed Dyson on real hardware.

Illumos kernel does not support neither my wired NIC (Atheros AR8162, PCI 1969:1090),
nor wireless (Broadcom BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller, PCI 14e4:4727).

I used USB stick - ASUS WL-167G v2 802.11g Adapter [Ralink RT2571W].

I've failed to connect with both WEP and WPA (connection timeout),
but insecure connection without any authorization was successful.

I've made full desktop installation, but did not boot it yet, because
I'm going to try booting with GRUB2 from Debian, which is installed on the same laptop.

New installer CD ISO image is available at http://ftp.osdyson.org/iso/2013-09-15/

Visible changes:

1. More mirrors to use.
2. Installing additional packages, e. g. for desktop.
3. Creating a regular user.

We have Gimp!

Russian mirror (I believe it is in Moscow), updating once a day.

• APT repository: http://mirror-ru.osdyson.org/apt/
• Downloads: http://mirror-ru.osdyson.org/ftp/

We have a trash GVFS and can play MP3's via gstreamer-ffmpeg and exaile!

Running XFCE 4.10!

LightDM is a desktop manager. It is slightly patched to run on the illumos kernel.

Running X!