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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Member since:2006-01-06
>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.
Will they be ever fihished? I don't think so. On the other hand Solaris is matured system. And it is not "only" Ubuntu on Solaris kernel, I think, but it has got all the features that Linux does not have (ZFS, DTrace, Zones). And kernel itself - it is not a cosmetic change, it is completely different software that is heart of your system. It is a choice.
Member since:2005-12-13
OK so you might have a point when it comes to what gets downloaded for personal use, and even then there should be no 'Linux monopoly' to fight... Open source is all about freedom of choice, and if you 'choose not to choose' that's still a choice...
I might very well want to make use of ZFS at home, but unless I want to play around with different attempts to port this to other platforms, Solaris is the way to go! That coupled with the fact that in addition to Solaris, I might very well want to run an up to date installation of GNOME - Nexenta IS the way to go in such cases...
To me, that makes the wish for Nexenta to exist alongside FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux and the others quite legitimate...
I read your arguments so that we might as well get rid of the *BSDs and others that are not Linux (since they're all just different kernels) as Linux is the most dominant open source OS out there, scrap the freedom of choice since it's all about the license and not about the technology...
But what about the many, many different Linux distributions out there? -Are they just a waste of time?
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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!"