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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:Better Proposed Names... by ChameleonDave · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If you use the term to refer to any word with more than one morpheme, then you have made the term meaningless, as virtually all words in virtually all languages are thus.

    I am obviously using the term to refer to neologisms formed by clumsily chopping up two existing words (e.g. mimsy, mochaccino, acupressure or chocoholic). This is Carroll's meaning, and I don't see anyone would try to muddy the waters by using it in a different sense.

    Such words are usually slang, affectations, pseudo-science or marketing-speak. So, a pet-hate against them, or an opposition to their use in standard English, is unremarkable.