Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th May 2007 21:25 UTC, submitted by Patrik Buckau
Nexenta alpha 7 has been released. "OpenSolaris & NWS build 61 (non-debug); installer: new partitioning wizard, installer log (via F3), usability fixes, built-in driver availability detection; improved SVR4 compatibility (pkgadd, pkgrm, etc.); improved live upgrade - it is believed to work for all previously released alphas."
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2005-07-20
Oh yes, because a desktop user cares a great deal about the underlying unix kernel that happens to be used in his particular system.
Come on people, they all run the same software, they have the same (basic) features, the same (basic) hardware support (provided you know where to look, in the case of Solaris)...
Really what this does is provide exactly the same open source Operating System as is available in any Gnu/Linux system, only the kernel has changed. Gnu/Linux vs. *BSD, yes, that's a "choice" in that one uses GPL system tools and the other doesn't, but even then the tools have 99% the same functionality, so that isn't a "choice" either... but this isn't even that much of a "choice" since they don't even use the original solaris world-tools.
That's seriously the dumbest thing I've ever read, and given how old I am that is saying something.
Now, when Haiku, React-OS, et al are finished... then there will be a "real choice in oss OSs"... but this particular one just gives you Ubuntu all over agian.
Yeah yeah, I know, I know, saying something is stupid makes people mod me as troll but I really don't give two-halves of a rotten squirrel, people need to think before they say things!
It's like saying "Ubuntu and Kubuntu! Wow, finally some real choice!"