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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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      Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.
    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.

  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.