NexentaOS, Based on OpenSolaris, Integrates ZFS Boot Functionality

With all the ZFS comments yesterday, I missed this announcement from Nexenta, which released its first ZFS/Boot-capable installer.

For those not familiar with NexentaOS, it is a complete GNU-based free and open source operating system built on top of the OpenSolaris kernel and runtime. NexentaOS integrates OpenSolaris (SunOS kernel) and Open Source Software (OSS) applications. You can download a number of different OpenSolaris based distributions from OpenSolaris.org

Posted on: Jun 07, 2007

Posted by: marchamilton

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This is excellent news for the NexentaOS people, however it saddens me that a 3rd party group has got their act together and produced a working (although alpha) installer able to boot on ZFS long before the Sun/SXCE teams.

Posted by Sean Clarke on June 08, 2007 at 01:14 AM PDT #

Interesting comment. Personally, I am not sad about this. This is the whole idea behind OpenSolaris.org and a key reason Sun supports open source ... most of the smart people do not work for you. For our core enterprise Solaris release (Solaris 10), we have many quality, interoperability, compatibility, platform support, and other requirements which by their very nature take longer to implement than someone doing a new distribution. With the proposed Project Indiana work, out goal is to work with the OpenSolaris community to create an OpenSolaris binary distribution that is both more familiar to users (like Nexenta is) and also allows innovation to be more quickly introduced under a different set of requirements than what we eventually support for our enterprise Solaris releases. What I am sometimes a bit sad about is that so many in the OpenSolaris community seem to hold Sun to different standards, i.e. when Sun employees talk about Project Indiana there are suddently thousands of emails on OpenSolaris discussion groups about conspiracy theory about Sun "taking over" OpenSolaris while no one complains that Nexenta is trying to "take over". So I applaud the Nexenta project for their continued advancements and hope we can get the Indiana project started up soon and get another OpenSolaris binary distribution up and running.

Posted by Marc Hamilton on June 08, 2007 at 09:39 AM PDT #

The conspiracy theories about Sun "taking over" OpenSolaris stem from the fact that Project Indiana wanted (wants?) to call itself "OpenSolaris" and make itself *THE* OpenSolaris reference distribution. Nexenta has done neither (and in fact, can't call itself "OpenSolaris" due to that being a Sun trademark).

Posted by stevel on June 08, 2007 at 10:53 AM PDT #

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