Get Nexenta now if you want OpenSolaris kernel and Ubuntu userland. ZFS/DTrace anyone?
February 18th 2008 10:37 pm
I have blogged about this before, go get it here ,it is out of beta now. OpenSolaris kernel, GNU userland (most of Ubuntu’s packages).
I have mentioned before that Ian Murdock, the chap who started Debian, has joined Sun to work on Project Indiana. This is basically a binary distro using the OpenSolaris codebase and including a load of free software that folk have come to expect from a linux distro. This may work, but it’s not great now and the binary distros of Solaris, called Developer Preview and Community are dire.
In the great tradition of Debian + YOUR_FAVOURITE_KERNEL (a la Gnu/Hurd Gnu/FreeBSD and GNU/NetBSD) comes Nexenta. I use it and like it, ZFS + Samba were my goals I have that now, but I am looking forward to the new in-kernel CIFS server, expect benchmarks after I move house.
fritz responded on 20 Aug 2010 at 2:52 pm #
Thanks for the article………….I’m new to Nexenta after being rather disgusted with FreeBSD and her derivatives and Linux in general (EVERY distribution is based on Ubuntu – blah!!!). I use a Sun x64 box and used Debian on her for many years, tried to switch and went to Net- and FreeBSD, to some disappointment, tried to return to Debian, but it wasn’t the same: I need a new challenge and a new OS – maybe Nexenta will be it. Is there concern in the community about Oracle and the kernel for Nexenta? Will it make a nice, stable desktop?
Just curious – no real immediate required.
Best,
Fritz
Duo responded on 14 Sep 2010 at 6:57 am #
Fritz,
The Nexenta distro will work as a desktop, but I would check out StormOS. It is Nexenta with the specific goal to be a desktop OS.