On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 05:45 -0800, UNIX admin wrote: > > I could download Nexenta, which I believe uses > > Debian's apt (something that I absolutely love) and > > GNU tools. Does it mean I will miss out on anything > > that is Solaris-specific? > > Of course you will. Nexenta is Ubuntu with an OpenSolaris kernel core and > OpenSolaris userland mixed with GNU that Ubuntu comes with. > > If you really, honestly want to learn Solaris proper, then you should stick > with (Open)Solaris. > > If you plan to run Solaris in production, Nexenta is most likely not what you > want, nor will it ever be, unless you are keen on babysitting your servers. > > There is a tremendous amount of (re)engineering work that goes into Nexenta > to graft Ubuntu on top of an OpenSolaris core, and this is why Nexenta will > always lame behind (Open)Solaris proper.
Please don't confuse people. What you just said is simply a lie. Nexenta uses exactly the same ON an NWS bits as any other OpenSolaris distribution out there. And starting from Alpha6, we now fully support native Sun userland command tools which previously has been disabled. Just set your shell in /etc/passwd to /sbin/sh and enjoy with pure Solaris environment. -- Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
