Kristoff Bonne wrote:
>>> I though that "debian" filled in this part? Or not?
>>>       
>> debian is entirely different distro using different kernel, I don't
>> understand what you mean by "filled in this part"
>>     
> Not really.
> AFAIK, debian is a OS-distribution which can be build on top of a number
> of different kernels. Besides the linux-kernel, there are
> debian-distribution on top of the gnu hurd kernel and the freebsd-kernel.
>
> See here: http://www.debian.org/ports/#nonlinux
>
>
>
> So what I wonder is this: can you call nexenta a "debian on top of a
> opensolaris kernel"?
>
>
> How much of nexentaCP is "own" code (or ONb68-derived) and how much come
> from the "GNU" projects or from debian?
>   

Nexenta derives from Debian/Ubuntu but there are some kind of licensing 
problems with "Debian on OpenSolaris". Otherwise, the analogy is correct.

 From my understanding: the base OS is ON, the packaging system is 
Debian, the patches to packages to work together are Nexenta.

-Tim
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