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Taking a Look at Nexenta's Blend of Solaris and Ubuntu
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."
If it was any sort of priority for Sun, that project would have actually gotten somewhere after three and a half years. If it's not important to Sun, it's not important to me, either.
Not to mention the fact that Sun is financially circling the drain, which means that the future of OpenSolaris is very much in question. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised to see Sun try to sue people for distributing the binary bits later on down the road if they ever reach a point of financial desperation (or if they ever get sold off to a SCO-like organisation).
Personally, I'd rather install FreeBSD, which I trust will continue to be here and relevant (-not here in a technical "it's available and there's a usergroup of five people" sense like plan 9 is) and which I am able to compile a working, 100% Free version of.
Most commercial software requires a specific Linux distribution, if it offers any Linux binaries to begin with.
So the problem with free software is proprietary software?
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