Solaris to illumos: the fork that lived
Sun built ZFS and DTrace inside Solaris, then opened the source. Oracle closed it again. The illumos fork is why you can still run both today.
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Can you run illumos on a VPS?
What it takes to run illumos on rented hardware: full virtualisation, custom ISO or console access, virtio drivers, and the honest limits you hit.