Alan DuBoff wrote: > On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, kingneutron wrote: > >> o Still no updates for A7 >> >> o Forums are dead >> >> --Where's the PROGRESS??? >> > Really? The last I saw, Nexenta supports installation to a zfs filesystem, > and has an entire distirbution of more than 12,000 packages. > > I am not really sure exactly what Indiana is, and I work at Sun...:-/ >
There are good points to both sides. Nexenta has some great core functionality. I am now using it on a box that does purely iscsi target exports in a production environment on commodity x86_64 hardware to a small cluster of T1000's. I can't wait until other parts have stabilized. As a user, visibility into the development of the project is tough. I know there is an unpublished repository out there with much newer bits but I have no idea what is going into the repository, how to test it, what versions of packages are worth filing bugs against etc. Something that would be awesome is a small blog that developers could quickly publish to keep users informed. The closest thing to this seems to be the launchpad website. I think there is definitely a disconnect between the developers and the users currently. <Indiana Rant> IMHO, Indiana seems to be marketing targeted at the Linux world that doesn't even consider Solaris at this point. In any case, I'm surprised that there is no discussion with Ian Murdock about Nexenta. The projects have similar goals, but the implementation might be very different especially since Sun expects backwards compatibility so strongly and Nexenta doesn't strive for that quite as hard. (plus the native packaging system is different, Sun probably wants to keep their .pkg format around and alien doesn't always do such a great job) Maybe there will be something like apt ported to use .pkg but better than pkg-get? </Indiana Rant> -Tim _______________________________________________ gnusol-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel
