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StormOS Beta Released

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The StormOS developers have announced the first beta, codenamed “Hail”, of their desktop-oriented Nexenta-based distribution. Building upon the Nexenta Core Platform, StormOS offers a polished XFCE desktop and a handful of lightweight desktop applications out of the box. This beta is available in both direct download and torrent links, you can find them here.

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  1. 2009-06-11 5:31 am
    Bill Shooter of Bul Gold Supporter

    This is what I’ve been waiting for. I actually had made some fairly minor progress doing something similar myself. Open Solaris core + Gui + Gnu tools = my next Desktop os.

    • 2009-06-12 1:09 am
      pepa65

      Just tried MilaX 0.4 in VirtualBox, and was impressed how well it worked. Haven’t tried installing it for real though.

  2. 2009-06-11 9:39 am
    lasg.dk

    Some years ago, around 2001, I got into the Linux/Unix world. My first Linux server ran Storm-Linux version “Hail!”. It was some Debian derivative.

    The funny thing is the name, which is very identical to this new Solaris-Ubuntu-merge.

    Why is it called StormOS, and why particular “Hail” as the version? ;)

    Are there any kind of relations to this old (surely dead by now) Storm-Linux?

    • 2009-06-11 3:53 pm
      chrispy

      Hi everyone (I’m new here),

      I just found that:

  • 2009-06-11 10:05 am
    orfanum

    What associations would exist in your mind if it were called “InternationaleOS” and the first expression of it were named “Comrade”? Just work out the opposite and you might want to reconsider

    Edited – sorry, should have been a reply to the previous poster.

    Edited 2009-06-11 10:05 UTC

    • 2009-06-11 3:16 pm
      Bill Shooter of Bul Gold Supporter

      That would only work in English as a pun. The Nazi greeting was ‘heil’ not hail. Even as a joke, that’s sort of in bad taste.

      • 2009-06-11 3:42 pm
        orfanum

        Well, it was not meant as a joke in bad taste – if I can make this connection, so can others, and it might be advisable therefore to call it something else. We’ve just had the BNP voted in here – call me oversensitive if you wish but rebranding might be in order.

        • 2009-06-11 5:12 pm
          Bill Shooter of Bul Gold Supporter

          Yeah, I’d call the critique over sensitive. I wouldn’t change it. I don’t even know if I fully understand it. What does storm have to do with the nazis? Would obeying the general rule just ban the word “hail” from any product/service?

          Microsoft had a similar code name for the .net web services “hailstorm”. Did that lead anyone to label Microsoft anti-semetic? No. No one even thought of it.

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hailstorm