Submitted by 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.
StormOS Beta Released
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2009-06-11 3:16 pm
Bill Shooter of Bul Platinum Prime
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
- 2009-06-11 5:12 pm
Bill Shooter of Bul Platinum Prime
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.
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.
Just tried MilaX 0.4 in VirtualBox, and was impressed how well it worked. Haven’t tried installing it for real though.
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?
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