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Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 released
The Nexenta team is pleased to announce Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 release - the 1.0 release. It can be dowloaded at http://www.nexenta.org List of the changes and highlights ====================== # OpenSolaris b82 based (x86, 32bit and 64bit, non-debug) # Ubuntu/Dapper based # Project integration: NWS, AVS, COMSTAR, in-kernel CIFS client # apt-clone: ZFS-integrated safe upgrade via remote APT repository # Support for in-place (live) and safe upgrades # Installer: multiple improvements; installs from USB # Small memory requirement: 256MB # Nexenta Zones: multiple improvements; integrated automatic Zone upgrades # CIFS client included in the default installation # Xen DomU and Xen Dom0 (32bit, [2]) # GRUB-integrated memory test # Nexenta ISO Builder ([3]) # APT repository - status complete. Stable repository (elate-stable) ready for usage. About Nexenta Core Platform (NexentaCore) ============================= Nexenta Operating System is a free and open source operating system combining the OpenSolaris kernel with GNU application userland. Nexenta Operating System runs on Intel/AMD 32/64bit hardware and is distributed as a single installable CD. NexentaCore is a minimal (core) foundation that can be used to quickly build servers, desktops, and custom distributions tailored for specialized applications. The latest and previous NexentaCore releases are available at [4]. With the power of Debian tools behind it, NexentaCore could be customized for any vertical application or distribution: KDE, GNOME, XFCE centric Desktops, LAMP servers, Xen Dom0 ZFS-powered servers, and more. Unlike NexentaOS desktop distribution, NexentaCore does not aim to provide a complete desktop. The overriding objective for NexentaCore is - stable foundation. NexentaCore is already used, today, as the foundation for NexentaStor storage appliance [5]. Developers and Users - join official Nexenta IRC #nexenta [6], report bugs and request features via Launchpad [7]. Links ==== [1] Homepage: http://www.nexenta.org/os [2] Dom0: http://www.nexenta.org/os/NexentaXenDom0 [3] ISO builder: http://www.nexenta.org/os/DistributionBuilder [4] NexentaCore releases: http://www.nexenta.org/releases [5] NexentaStor appliance: http://www.nexenta.com [6] IRC channel: #nexenta on irc.freenode.net [7] Bug database: https://launchpad.net/nexenta -- The Nexenta Team (Log in to post comments)
Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 released Posted Feb 11, 2008 20:56 UTC (Mon) by ajross (subscriber, #4563) [Link] Not to be too much of a killjoy, but they just now finished a release of an Ubuntu port that is already 3 versions behind? Shouldn't a little more effort have been expended to make sure they're tracking upstream changes? Is the intent maybe that this is going to be managed as a fork from Dapper without any direct release-to-release relationship?
Dapper Posted Feb 11, 2008 21:26 UTC (Mon) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] Remember that Dapper is the current Long-Term Support release of Ubuntu. The Solaris kernel is targeted toward stable server installations that aren't going to get upgraded every six months.
Dapper Posted Feb 11, 2008 22:48 UTC (Mon) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link] Yes, I think their next move is to release a version of Nexenta Core Platform derived from Ubuntu Hardy -- the next Long Term Support release of Ubuntu.
Dapper Posted Feb 12, 2008 6:15 UTC (Tue) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link] A stable version of Ubuntu on the Solaris kernel would be great for servers. I use Ubuntu on my desktop and laptop, but am very interested in Solaris for a NAS, due to ZFS's checksumming and other features that safeguard data. Having done a lot of reading on RAID 5 and RAID 1 on Linux, I have yet to enable it because of the quite high risk of losing data. Read http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/linux-nas-raid.html and then think about whether Linux RAID or Solaris ZFS is a better platform for your data. I know there are many RAID approaches on Linux including hardware RAID and fakeRAID, but I don't think any of them are up to the level of data protection provided by NetApp or ZFS. I know about ZFS-FUSE for Linux and may use that in future, but it's not ready for prime time yet.
Dapper Posted Feb 12, 2008 14:40 UTC (Tue) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link] Okay, so try out Nexenta, which offers exactly what you just said you wanted, and let us know how it goes! I use an early beta of Nexenta for a server, and it works fine, but I don't do any fancy tricks with ZFS yet.
Lose the animated GIF on the website! Posted Feb 12, 2008 6:17 UTC (Tue) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link] I really like the idea of Nexenta but I *hate* the throbbing animated GIF on their website. Throbbing GIFs were a bad idea in the 1990s, please lose this image if you want to avoid putting people off.
Lose the animated GIF on the website! Posted Feb 12, 2008 18:54 UTC (Tue) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] Firefox and Konqueror, and probably other browsers, can be set to animate GIFs only once.
Lose the animated GIF on the website! Posted Feb 14, 2008 13:40 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link] I know, but why should the user have to reconfigure the browser to get rid of an obnoxious design element like this?
Lose the animated GIF on the website! Posted Feb 14, 2008 13:55 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] Considering that there are quite a few sites with animated GIFs, I just set it once and forget about it. Otherwise I'm in constant pain on the web. Talk to the browser developers about making it the default setting.
Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 released Posted Feb 13, 2008 19:31 UTC (Wed) by jordanb (guest, #45668) [Link] When did Nexenta go to Ubuntu? Last I heard it was based on Debian, and there was even talk about making it an official Debian distro if Sun ever went through with the GPL stuff. Anyway, I looked at it a bit ago because I was considering what to do with this Blade 100 I have, but it didn't even have SPARC support!
Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 released Posted Feb 14, 2008 13:41 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link] Their site says it is based on both Ubuntu and Debian - sounds like they have their own repositories and are a fork of both distros, in the same way that Ubuntu is derived from Debian.
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