Nexenta Core Platform RC3 is available for download now. Main feature is Xen Dom0/DomU platform support. Other changes in this release includes: critical fixes for native CIFS server, critical fixes for ZFS, critical bug fixes for SATA and networking stacks. CIFS client now included. The Debian apt repository is now complete, with about 2500 tested packages.
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Member since:2007-07-27
Read this for some advantages that Solaris has:
"Just to be explicit: on the same hardware, solaris 10 fixed your corruption/read-only /data problem?"
"Yes. Same exact hardware. We reinstalled Linux twice even to make sure there wasn't something wrong with the install. I've had lots of other people chime in reporting very similar problems."
http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/77-Choosing-Solaris-10-over...
Member since:2005-07-06
Joe User is probably not going to care. Very rarely (these days) does the kernel matter much to the user. ZFS and DTrace are good examples of something a user *might* care about, on the OpenSolaris side (if he likes to tinker). Or on the Linux side maybe you want Samba in the Kernel. There are a few other things.
I personally love OpenSolaris, and the idea of OpenSolaris. I am a long time Sun Solaris administrator and enjoyed working with the OS. I think that open sourcing the OS has brought new life, and a new future to it.
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2006-06-02
Can anyone tell me how the OpenSolaris kernel is advantageous compared to the Linux one? I can see the benefits of having access to all those packages but (being ignorant) I have no idea apart from some of the headline-grabbing stuff (ZFS) why opting for this kernel/userland mix would offer an advantage over a stock Linux installation.
Can anyone explain in Joe User language?
Appreciated