On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:48 PM, William Bauer <bqba...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, someone 'splain me somethin'.... > > I get how Solaris and OpenSolaris work, what packages are, IPS, how to > install stuff, and all that. Been doing it for a couple decades. And by the > way, I'm still holding out hope for the Solaris 11 developer release to > effectively replace OpenSolaris. But I digress. > > I don't understand much about Linux, so I'm very confused at how Nexenta and > StormOS are "based on Ubuntu", as the Nexenta web site says. It seems to me > it's based on (Open)Solaris. What exactly is the tie-in with Ubuntu and/or > Linux? I find this very confusing. >
Nexenta uses apt/dpkg pacjaging system, and it provides a repository with about 13000 Ubuntu packages ported to OpenSolaris. So it's the Ubuntu userland on top of OpenSolaris. ~Anil _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
