New Adventures in illumos: (Just Like) Starting Over
4 min readNov 13, 2021
It feels like an eternity since I last ran illumos on bare metal.
One way or another, my previous two laptops simply didn’t cut it — one was a Dell Inspiron (now deceased) with a wifi card that was unsupported by illumos, while the other is an older Compaq that chokes on newer implementations of ZFS. I eventually found a USB wifi…
