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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. Better Proposed Names... by iluvcapra · · Score: 5, Funny
    • Solbuntu
    • Ublaris
    • Blarunt
    • UbunSunTu
    • or just Usuntu
    • Gnolaris
    • Somnambulent

    But seriously, sounds like a great idea.

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    1. Re:Better Proposed Names... by TechForensics · · Score: 5, Funny

      How about Usuntzu?

      Fool around with Linux names on /. and you're dabbling in the art of war....

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    2. Re:Better Proposed Names... by ciaohound · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or at least confucius the issue.

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    3. Re:Better Proposed Names... by spoonist · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why are you making this so difficult?

      Clearly this new distro should be called GNU/Solaris.

    4. Re:Better Proposed Names... by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 3, Funny

      Somnambulent sounds like a good trade mark for sleeping pill. I'm getting somnolent just thinking about it.

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    5. Re:Better Proposed Names... by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 2, Funny

      One word (maybe two?): D'oh!

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    6. Re:Better Proposed Names... by srussia · · Score: 1, Funny

      Somnambulent sounds like a good trade mark for sleeping pill. I'm getting somnolent just thinking about it.

      Did you get an urge to walk around while asleep as well?

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    7. Re:Better Proposed Names... by lysergic.acid · · Score: 3, Funny

      i don't think i'd take a sleeping pill that causes sleep walking.

      but maybe if they marketed it as a diet pill that lets you lose weight while sleeping...

    8. Re:Better Proposed Names... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny


      S o l A R i s
      _U B u n t U

    9. Re:Better Proposed Names... by iluvcapra · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well sure, if you want to guarantee it'll be called "Solaris" (if history is any guide).

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    10. Re:Better Proposed Names... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      How about Gesundheit!

    11. Re:Better Proposed Names... by rohan972 · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Somnambulent" is a real word, which makes it unusable to pharma companies. Maybe "Somnioxx," or "Somnagra".

      That's just what I want. A pill that puts me to sleep and then gives me a hardon.

      That explains my state when I wake up, someone's been drugging me without my knowledge!

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  2. Re:More stories like this by DiegoBravo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Real slashdotters use lots of the nice checkboxes to change their preferences. Nerds are complex beasts.

  3. What happens when... by neonsignal · · Score: 5, Funny

    > you... unplug its Linux kernel, and plug in a[n]... OpenSolaris kernel...

    What happens?

    Neither Linus nor Richard are happy.

    1. Re:What happens when... by __aasqbs9791 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I don't know about Linus, but how would this shut up Richard Stallman? This is the exact sort of thing he would rail against and he is not the type to shut up. Ever. Maybe he goes too far, but I wish I had the kind of drive that guy has about anything. I'm just too apathetic. Or perhaps just pathetic. I haven't decided yet.

  4. Re:Even if.... by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Funny

    In this case, the GPL is the problem. The CDDL is a per-file license. This is why Apple can put ZFS and DTrace into OS X, linking directly against their code. Because the CDDL'd code they get from OpenSolaris is under a per-file license. The same is true of FreeBSD - they can put ZFS code into their kernel and the CDDL only affects those portions of the kernel. People who don't want to use ZFS still get a BSDL kernel, people who do get a BSDL kernel with a few CDDL components. Linux, on the other hand, can't incorporate any of this code, because of the GPL.

    The CDDL isn't the only license to be incompatible with the GPL. The FSF maintains a long list of Free Software licenses which are incompatible with the GPL. Other notable examples include the Apache Software License (version 2 is compatible with GPLv3), the Apple Public Source License, and the Mozilla Public License. None of these license place any requirements on the final product, only on the code released under that license, and so all three can be mixed together without issue.

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  5. Re:Get me a Redhat/Centos userland by Moridineas · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who knew that a company based in the same city as MIT and Harvard might be able to find a few people who are good technologists AND some who are good at business

    MIT and Harvard relocated to the Triangle too? Jeez! ;-)

  6. Re:More stories like this by Daimanta · · Score: 3, Funny

    Real Slashdotters use Lynx and despise checkboxes.

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  7. Re:More stories like this by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 4, Funny

    George Bush was keeping stories like this off Slashdot. Now that Obama's elected, we won't have any politically-charged stories. ;)

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  8. Re:where's the ubuntu? by Eunuchswear · · Score: 2, Funny

    So you got them from Ubuntu.

    I wonder where Ubuntu got them?

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