What would my ideal Operating System look like?
- Really small minimal installation. You know, like OpenBSD.
- Thorough and comprehensive help pages. You know, like OpenBSD.
- The ability to simply administer the OS remotely. You now, like SSH on OpenBSD.
- Excellent, easy to configure firewall. You know, like pf on OpenBSD.
- Easy to configure network redundancy. You know, like CARP on OpenBSD.
- All communications between servers to be on well-determined ports.
- Easy to manage centralised authentication. You know, like Active Directory on Windows.
- Redundancy of authentication servers. You know, like Active Directory on Windows.
- Automatic replication between authentication servers. You know, like Active Directory on Windows.
- Automatic discovery of authentication servers using a simple system like DNS. You know, like Active Directory on Windows.
- The ability to configure settings on clients centrally. You know, like Group Policy on Windows.
- The ability to manage disks in almost any way imaginable. You know, like Veritas Storage Foundation.
- The ability to replicate disks between systems. You know, like Veritas Volume Replicator.
- Easy to use clustering. You know, like Veritas Cluster Server.
- The ability to simply install OS updates. You know, like freebsd-update on FreeBSD.
- The ability to centrally manage OS updates across the organisation, downloading only once. You know, like WSUS on Windows.
- Centralised logging.
- Built-in monitoring of hardware sensors. You know, like sysctl hw.sensors on OpenBSD.
- Everything monitorable by SNMP.
- A clear support lifetime policy. You know, like OpenBSD.
- And finally, I want it Open Source. You know, like BSD-type open.
Is that too much to ask?