> Technically you also have Nexenta, though I personally don't know how > much better it actually is.
It's a lot nicer than OpenSolaris in that it doesn't force you to deal with the sometimes frustratingly antiquated Solaris userspace utilities (there are a lot of things that go back into the Bad Old Days of strict SVID, which Nexenta doesn't have to do). I also find that using APT to maintain the system is a godsend - it "just works" (as opposed to pkgadd and/or IPS -- kinda neat idea, but did we really need Yet Another Packaging System?). For a system that needs updating as often as OpenSolaris (RIP) did, using APT was/is a lot better. > Recent developments have also made me > wonder > about the possibility of a Debian GNU/Illumos or whatever it would be > called. The key will be whether they can get to the point of a totally Oracle-free build in a timely manner. There are still some bits of illumos that are OCO/closed-source that they have to write replacements for that are non-trivial, like the kernel lock manager and a lot of the crypto stuff. It'd be quite interesting as an appliance operating system, but without the mainline "Solaris" name link, I doubt it'll survive commercially. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
