Anyone tried Nexenta?

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Just come across this distro its named Nexenta, It bascially uses the opensolaris kernel with debian/ubuntu tools a sort of hybrid of solaris and linux. I'm now getting intrested in this and may take it for a spin at some point during the weekend on some spare hardware.:)

anyway without further ado here is linkage:Nexenta
 
Saw this recently after setting up opensolaris. Part of the choice for solaris was learning it though, so not much point going with a GNU userland:D

Let me know how you find it
 
Will do im just intrested how this works out. not really tried solaris or opensolaris but if all goes well I'd be more than willing to give it a try, For no other reason than the learning process
 
The new opensolaris.com (Opensolaris 2008.05) is nicer than nexenta IMO, with better driver support (as nexenta is built on quite a few releases back).

Also, the only real improvement I found with nexenta was newer gnome, and that's in Opensolaris 2008.05 now anyway, as for the debian tools, just learn pkg in opensolaris, it's pretty much apt-get :P

//TrX
 
gulp Thread revival from 2008.

Given recent events, a friend of mine who got me into Solaris recently, suggested I look at this OS.

Partly as upcoming changes with Oracle, solaris etc are debatable, but also as I like debian linux and keep falling over myself in solaris. So this was suggested as something to watch and possible be a safer bet for me.

How are/did you find it?
 
Why are you 'into Solaris' anyway? If you're after learning about how it works by getting back to basics then just use Arch Linux. Never got Solaris, doesn't seem to offer anything over Linux, plus it's a bit closed source.
 
Once I saw ZFS and zones I wanted more.

This was all before Oracle made the acquisition. Now it's license has changed then I'm looking for alternatives as I'm not upgrading. I use Cent and Debian distros mostly so the Nexenta is tempting, but also following the open indiana work.

In short I love debian for it's usability, ok that could be almost any distro. But zfs and zones are just brilliant for web servers running multiple setups without the joy of going for Xen.

Having RO zones for the front end public sites with RW zones to handle dynamics... I can build out pre-scaled setups before having to break out of box. I can run different versions of software for different sites, second or two pre upgrade snapshots etc but all benefit from a share of the baremetal... I know xen has come on a lot and it's zones or xen.

The problem is I'm not a solaris sysadmin, more a developer with a little bit of ops linux guy...

HTH.
 
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It's not a hybrid of linux and solaris at all!!

It's GNU/Solaris, Solaris kernel with GNU tools.

Just like Debian is GNU/Linux, Linux kernel with GNU tools.

Please for everyone's sanity, understand the difference. :D



On the OpenSolaris front, I did quite like where it was going, but it's ceased development since Oracle took over Sun. The Illumos project might become interesting if it gets off the ground.
 
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