tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post7470235623237582543..comments2023-08-16T18:29:17.918+03:00Comments on FOSS Boss: Nexenta, Can you say SolaBuntu (part1)Kamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02280645950384593949noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-26134162043338460752009-04-30T09:14:00.000+03:002009-04-30T09:14:00.000+03:00Hi. I've been wanting something like this for near...Hi. I've been wanting something like this for nearly a decade.<br />..................<br /><A HREF="http://www.genericdrugs-rx.com/" REL="nofollow">gen</A><A HREF="http://www.us-edrugstore.com/" REL="nofollow">us</A><A HREF="http://www.provacylonline.com/" REL="nofollow">prov</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-13015986308288756842009-02-27T22:23:00.000+02:002009-02-27T22:23:00.000+02:00Nexenta is still very much under active developmen...Nexenta is still very much under active development, and the #nexenta IRC channel on Freenode is turning out to be a refreshingly friendly place to find help and participate in improving the distribution.<BR/><BR/>As the blog alludes to, this is very much a server distribution right now. While it isn't too difficult to get an Xfce4 desktop working on it, other key applications like Firefox and Thunderbird aren't there yet.<BR/><BR/>But as a server platform, Nexenta has insanely high potential. Just fooling around with ZFS gets me very giddy with the possibilities of replacing my web & mail servers with Nexenta as it matures and stabilizes.<BR/><BR/>I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that if the Nexenta community grows and the project is managed well, this fusion of GNU and Sun software could indeed prove to be disruptive technology.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-49220308017063808142009-02-19T19:13:00.000+02:002009-02-19T19:13:00.000+02:00Yeah, like GNU is the only other important contrib...Yeah, like GNU is the only other important contributor.krillihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07328862662574849254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-72752308666745415212008-11-30T20:27:00.000+02:002008-11-30T20:27:00.000+02:00Just as Ubuntu is a GNU/Linux system, this is a GN...Just as Ubuntu is a GNU/Linux system, this is a GNU/OpenSolaris system.Matt Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13046780284402395102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-26182274682190574782008-11-24T07:52:00.000+02:002008-11-24T07:52:00.000+02:00Canonical buying Sun is ridiculous. Sun buying Nex...Canonical buying Sun is ridiculous. Sun buying Nexenta, however, might actually make sense. Sun needs to get its head around the idea that Solaris shouldn't reinvent Debian... it should just leverage it like Ubuntu does.Ean Schuesslerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15167223811321106998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-14071261175610655412008-11-24T07:50:00.000+02:002008-11-24T07:50:00.000+02:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ean Schuesslerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15167223811321106998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-73340381034637534292008-11-23T20:36:00.000+02:002008-11-23T20:36:00.000+02:00If you want Solaris, you will be much better off u...If you want Solaris, you will be much better off using the standard Sun Solaris 10/8.<BR/><BR/>There doesn't seam to be much active development at Nexenta anymore, the tested version have been in alpha stage forever, and the stable version is very old, and won't run programs like java or X.<BR/><BR/>It's not like you can't use gnu tools with standard Solaris, in fact a lot of them comes preinstalled. Nexenta still feels like Solaris to admin, you still need to know about svcadmin and other Solaris specific tools, to manage it.<BR/>To make it even worse, the java based GUI management tools of standard Solaris is missing, so you always have to resort to the command line.<BR/><BR/>The only advantage is that you can use apt-get, but that is not as much of an advantage as you would think, as there are very few packages available compared to what you get for real Linux Ubuntu or Debian. You can port debian packages but that is not always as straight forward as the Nexenta website have you to think.Uno Engborghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05632785146908689230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-83164657776404961472008-11-23T17:50:00.000+02:002008-11-23T17:50:00.000+02:00Great article. Always like to know of new dist/os ...Great article. Always like to know of new dist/os that pop up. Only thing... nescafe...really? bleh... Maxwell House all the way baby!Witchlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12583452095575571981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-91007127929596344182008-11-23T13:55:00.000+02:002008-11-23T13:55:00.000+02:00pretty, pretty good.pretty, pretty good.noid-https://www.blogger.com/profile/18335930940029336584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-14390205085291873102008-11-23T09:26:00.000+02:002008-11-23T09:26:00.000+02:00Not bad, when they get more packages up it may wor...Not bad, when they get more packages up it may work out to be a good contender.. seems as stable as solaris and as sleek as ubuntu, not much more you could ask for.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-69660804092234596702008-11-23T03:50:00.000+02:002008-11-23T03:50:00.000+02:00Good article, good illustrations and descriptions!...Good article, good illustrations and descriptions! And the SolaBuntu looks awesome.Will Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13987374169612225758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-6172183764153493732008-11-23T03:00:00.000+02:002008-11-23T03:00:00.000+02:00at JAVA's current stock price, Sun's market cap is...at JAVA's current stock price, Sun's market cap is about equal to its liquid assets... So, you could get Sun for "free"...<BR/><BR/>Question is, who would want it?<BR/><BR/>:)The Cybernetic Entomologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00786962432410897055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-47972937962102060672008-11-23T02:00:00.000+02:002008-11-23T02:00:00.000+02:00WOW. Dtrace, ZFS and all ubuntu usabality goodness...WOW. Dtrace, ZFS and all ubuntu usabality goodness in the same system? It's like Christmas!ラファエルhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13468681593744741422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-7726458086457452042008-11-23T01:56:00.000+02:002008-11-23T01:56:00.000+02:00apt-get is not ubuntu it's Debianapt-get is not ubuntu it's DebianUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07762576439206800093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-56575212804926515592008-11-23T01:52:00.000+02:002008-11-23T01:52:00.000+02:00Canonical buying Sun ? That's extremely funny ...Canonical buying Sun ? That's extremely funny =))<BR/>In case you're interested:<BR/>- Nexenta offers enterprise storage appliance NexentaStor, using a business model that's somewhat similar to what RedHat is doing with Fedora (develop for fedora, bugfix and mature, release and sell RHEL with tried and tested stable versions)<BR/>- Sun Microsystems, being the giant that it is, is unlikely to be bought by the likes of Canonical, a company which can't (yet) turn a profit ! The other way around sounds more realistic, but I don't think Shuttleworth would sell.<BR/>- Sun Microsystems also offers enterprise storage appliances as of very recently, with the Aurora series.<BR/>- Also, OpenSolaris is starting to shape up pretty damn well, having the sweet ZFS image-update AND a GNOME DE. Stay tuned for OpenSolaris 2008.11 which Sun will release in december (I know, stupid, but meh).<BR/>In many many regards OpenSolaris > Nexenta Core Platform.Andreihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13228705188074675857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-32148013272134809942008-11-23T01:16:00.000+02:002008-11-23T01:16:00.000+02:00I can see a merger or Canonical buying Sun, or the...I can see a merger or Canonical buying Sun, or the OS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-44426534612246219952008-11-23T01:04:00.001+02:002008-11-23T01:04:00.001+02:00Man, I've been wanting something like this for nea...Man, I've been wanting something like this for nearly a decade.The Cybernetic Entomologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00786962432410897055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-21577265800271847842008-11-23T01:04:00.000+02:002008-11-23T01:04:00.000+02:00Congrats! you made it to Slashdot :)You may want t...Congrats! you made it to Slashdot :)<BR/><BR/>You may want to think of things "P2P"-yay not just Cloud-y and Data Storage-y<BR/><BR/>Marc<BR/>http://evolvingtrends.wordpress.com/marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18011350677198888538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-55537630107047964312008-11-23T00:34:00.000+02:002008-11-23T00:34:00.000+02:00Ross, nexenta takes this specific concept of trans...Ross, nexenta takes this specific concept of transactional upgrades and booting either old or new system snapshots to an extreme. I will probably demo this in a few days as wellKamalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02280645950384593949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-1549971769179374512008-11-23T00:27:00.000+02:002008-11-23T00:27:00.000+02:00Meh, I just can't get too excited about this; many...Meh, I just can't get too excited about this; many of the things which are wonderful about solaris.... aren't part of the kernel. For example, upgrading your system by taking a snapshot of your ZFS root filesystem, and applying the updates to the snapshot, then booting either the old version or the new version. Sun has been doing a TON of work to retool solaris to make it modern, flexible, and sensible.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16293637574687560130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342921498109425004.post-28942768495991336972008-11-22T20:29:00.000+02:002008-11-22T20:29:00.000+02:00WOW, this is really wonderfulThe power of the Sola...WOW, this is really wonderful<BR/>The power of the Solaris kernel and the usability of Ubuntu combined :)<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the info.<BR/>any thing pretty besides zfs to convince me to switch ?Ahmed El Gamilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03272549111385075466noreply@blogger.com