On Mar 30, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
I don't know the state of Nexenta but I can live with Indiana. As a desktop, it was nice to get Nvidia drivers bundled, a working thunderbird + lightning plugin enabled, working sound (can I repeat that?), pidgin, openoffice (needless to say), sunstudioexpress, gcc, printer support, nice crisp looking fonts, compiz if that is your things and later xchat, ekiga...but no mplayer/vlc (not initially anyway...have to check with latest), no KDE (although there are packages outside the repo available), had to download a mp3 plugin for gstream, and learn a whole load of Solaris stuff unless you use dhcp.
I used Solaris eons ago, back when it was expensive and buggy - and I really hate to pay for bugfixes. So, when the cost of a new pentium box with (at the time) freely redistributable RH linux was less than the Solaris update required to fix some things, I switched. But circumstances have changed drastically on both sides now and it may be time to switch back for exactly the same reason.
Either way, it is worth looking at nexenta too. I had this thing for Sun cc compiled asterisk so I dropped nexenta and moved to Solaris Express and later Indiana.
Nexenta seems like such a good idea, but the team's main focus appears to be on their commercial storage appliance.
No flar or instantly install on thousands of servers support for Indiana though. For some things, RHEL just stands on top. Maybe I should give Fedora a try once again.
Is there an equivalent to clonezilla that will work with zfs? I'm not particularly thrilled with distro/version specific schemes anyway.
I would love something like Nexenta, but with a CentOS userland.
Imagine an unencumbered kernel with the stability of CentOS userland tools.
You get ZFS/ARC, dtrace, smf, fma, plus the Solaris IP stack which is quite robust, with all the command line tools you are use to.
Think SELinux could be ported to the Solaris kernel?
-Ross