On Mar 30, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at 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