What is the proper way to set cc to the C compiler? Should I symlink cc to gcc?

Some systems have a special way to choose what gets called when you use 'cc'.

jayjwa: for the /home vs /export/home question I have a feeling I've seen the omnios installer do both, I think depending on how some question is answered. But it's been a while since I played with that.

with ZFS it was fairly easy to move /home to /export. I created rpool/export, renamed rpool/home to rpool/export/home, set rpool/export/home to inherit it's mountpoint and turned on autofs

jayjwa: "export CC=cc" ?

it's also worth noting that /etc/default/useradd has a setting that makes a fs for each user.

I'm new to omnios. Planning to use it at home with zfs/raid+bhyve. Do you suggest omnios latest stable or latest LTS?

divansantana: I think the next release is due out soon which should also be a LTS release.

so it might be worth using the latest release to try things out then upgrade / re-install once the next release is out.

m1ari: thanks, that's helpful. So if I install the latest release, can one upgrade to the next LTS once it's released?

I believe you can, I don't think there's anything particularly special about the LTS releases vs. the normal stable releases other than the extended support.