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Taking a Look at Nexenta's Blend of Solaris and Ubuntu

Posted by timothy on from the little-a-this-little-a-that dept.

Ahmed Kamal writes "What happens when you take a solid system such as Ubuntu Hardy, unplug its Linux kernel, and plug in a replacement OpenSolaris kernel? Then you marry Debian's apt-get to Solaris' zfs file-system? What you get is Nexenta Core Platform OS. Let's take Nexenta for a quick spin, installing and configuring this young but promising system."

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  1. solaris and.....ubuntu? by nimbius · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    id like a dash of the proprietary with my FOSS thank you ;)

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  2. Re:This is what Indiana should have been..... by blind+biker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I read your post and got brain-damaged. I would love if there was a +0, Rant-a-gogo. Seriously dude, WTF ;))))

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