Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 alpha2. This is the second release in NCP3.
The main changes over the Alpha1 release include: * move from Opensolaris b124 to b124. This brings the long awaited ZFS deduplication support to the distribution. * Many additional network drivers. * nexenta-on-source changes >From the release of NCP3, all sunw* packages are natively built on Nexenta. The complete sources are available in the repository, along with Sun Studio 12 and other tools to roll your own kernel. The nexenta-on-source package makes it very easy to build the opensolaris ON gate on NCP3 apt-get install nexenta-on-source cd /usr/src/nexenta-on-source && apt-satisfydepends dpkg-buildpackage -sa Complete Instructions at http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/BuildingOpensolaris Package repository: http://www.nexenta.org/projects/nexenta-gate/repository * NCP2 reposiotry (with b104 packages) is now moved to http://apt.nexenta.org/ncp2/ hardy-unstable * NCP3 Alpha2 uses http://apt.nexenta.org/ hardy-unstable Please set your sources.list accordingly. --- This is an alpha release, and a moving target until we reach the final release. It is in a good shape for developers to tinker with.. and we welcome community efforts to improve NCP3. Please file bug reports at http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/issues You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/os/Download Regards -- The Nexenta Team.
