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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. Re:solaris and.....ubuntu? by edalytical · · Score: 5, Informative

    You must have missed the memo. Sun has been open sourcing projects left and right: OpenSolaris, Java and VirtualBox to name a few high profile examples. Sure OpenSolaris isn't GPL'd, but Java and VirtualBox are.

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  2. Re:64 bit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The x86 iso includes 64bit kernel. It auto detects on boot.

  3. Re:where's the ubuntu? by anilg · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hi, I'm one of NCP (Nexenta Core Platform) developers. The Ubuntu part of Nexenta is the userland. So over 5000 apps that you see in our repository are ports of 8.04 counterparts.

    Theres some more information for developers in an article I wrote over at OSnews.

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