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The Nexenta Project developers have issued the first release candidate for version 3.0 of their Nexenta Core Platform, addressing several issues found in the previous development milestone
The Nexenta Project developers have released the first beta for version 3.0 of their Nexenta Core Platform (NCP) [--] the sixth development release in the NCP cycle
The Nexenta project has shipped Nexenta Core Platform 3.0, which will be the last version based directly on the OpenSolaris code base as future versions will switch to the Illumos project's OpenSolaris fork
This time around I will be playing around with nexenta OS. Nexenta is a marriage between OpenSolaris and Ubuntu, or what I like to call SolaBuntu :) Solaris has a pretty decent record in the data-center. It is a solid and widely trusted paltform, however, it was showing its age pretty badly.
Nexenta is a project developing a debian user-land for the OpenSolaris kernel. This provides all of the advantages of apt as a package respoitory (based on the Ubuntu LTS apt repository, currently using 8.04) as well as the advantages of the ZFS filesystem. In the resulting setup every user can have his/her own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol or NFS with read-/write access.
While Sun Microsystems may have struggled with making money from its OpenSolaris operating system prior to Sun's acquisition by Oracle, that doesn't mean that others haven't had better success.
Standalone Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers provide file level storage to heterogeneous clients, enabling shared storage. This article presents the basics of NAS units (NFS servers) and how you can create one from an existing system.
I have received some very nice feedback regarding my last blog on D-Bus, thanks guys. This week I'm going to play once more with my Nexenta installation that we completed in part1.
A beta version of StormOS has emerged, which is a desktop distribution that is based upon the Nexenta Core Platform that in turn is derived from OpenSolaris but with an Ubuntu user-land.
