Rainer Duffner wrote:
I would love something like Nexenta, but with a CentOS userland.
What exactly are you missing from Solaris userland that does exist in Linux, BTW?
A package manager that can grab many thousands of packages with their dependencies and keep them up to date. And a large, friendly community maintaining those packages.
Maybe except for all the horrible cat some_arcane_value > /proc/foo or /sys/baz to coax the kernel into doing something. But I'm not missing that.
And I'm not missing Nexenta. Last time I looked, the "free" version did almost nothing compared to the commercial version. Which is no surprise, really, and brings us back to square one....
They are supposed to have most of the ubuntu/debian packages available for installation. The last time I tried to install it the big problem was the lack of AIC 7899 support and the SATA driver for the other machine I would have used. But that's an OpenSolaris problem, not really Nexenta's.
Linux is everything and the kitchen sink (in terms of features), but few are completely implemented or actually wrapped into an API/ userland tools. Everything is constantly in flux, most stuff get's thrown over every other year (except for the places that would really need it, seemingly) and hardly anybody documents (try to find a man- page for a hw-driver...)
A driver without a man page is more useful than no driver at all...