NexentaOS, Debian-based GNU/Solaris, has opened a pilot-program. "We'll open Nexenta web developer portal completely for the general public by mid-November. Today we are launching a Pilot Program. Solaris developers and the entire OpenSolaris community - you are welcome to participate in the Pilot!"
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If interested, please send e-mail to support at nexenta.com, and tell us a few
words about yourself. We'll respond with a user/password.
Thanks!
Nexenta Team
Member since:I would say you are half right.
Sun's build of GNU software on their companion CD is junk. I install software from sunfreeware or build my own packages. In my case I have a custom "support CD" I made with all of the packages we install plus a recent patch cluster, patches for our particular hardware and software. Debian Solaris might eliminate the need for me to do all of this.
Sun's new patch tools are really slick though. Old patchpro wasn't bad but their new updatemanager is gravy. My only criticism of it is that being java based it is slow.
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2005-09-22
Solaris is impressive, but in comparison to Debian it is very difficult to install, patch and maintain. Furthermore, their bundled OSS software is very poorly assembled. Also, the GNU utilities like tar, grep, and sed have far more features than their Sun counterparts.
Debian and Solaris are the only two operating systems I use, but I've often wished that I could have the best of both worlds. It sounds like this could be it... but they don't want to let me into their site yet