Good review. Thanks ken! One little thing, Nexenta Alpha 1 comes with non-debug kernel which makes Nexenta perfect platform for performance investigations.
Erast On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 09:06 -0800, ken mays wrote: > ref: http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Getting_Started > > > Nexenta OS (elatte) Alpha 1 released > > I just spent a day reviewing a few trial loads of the > latest release of Nexenta OS (elatte) Alpha 1 LIVE-CD. > > Oddly, it has taken up to an hour for the LIVE CD to > get most of the desktop loaded on my two test machines > (Compaq Presario S5000V and a custom Intel P4 2.5GHZ, > 256MB RAM). I noticed that Nexenta doesn't provide the > MGA_HAL driver for Matrox video card users. > > Now, the Knoppix 4.0.2 and older Gnoppix Live CD > worked fine on both of my test machines and several > older distros of Knoppix and other LIVE CDs/DVDs. > Maybe some clues to 'streamline' Nexenta loading of > the GNOME desktop, necessary apps, and better RAMDISK > usage may help Nexenta on systems with less than 512 > MB of RAM. > > The nice point about this release of Nexenta is the > improvements to X and the additional network drivers. > Also, over 90 bug fixes and several other issues were > resolved. > > As far as languages and the sessions, I was only able > to pick POSIX-C English and various GNOME sessions > from the GDM. > > One of the best features is that you can load up > Nexenta in Single user CLI mode and begin doing > programming work immediately. This may be something > worth reviewing for educational Unix programming and > beginner classes. > > I'll try to review more of the Nexenta OS system > inthe upcoming days as I upgrade the RAM in my test > systems. > > > ~Ken Mays > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. > http://farechase.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
