Having a distro (or two) that is really, really different from standard
Solaris is actually a very good thing to have -- as long as it's
different in all the right ways.
On the LugRadio, Adam Leventhal interview[1], when a LugRadio guy asks
something like: I'm an Ubuntu user, should I try OpenSolaris? Adam's
answer of course was: Yes -- try Nexenta.
In other words, I for one am thrilled that we have precisely that answer
for Ubuntu and other Linux users/developers who have never tried
Solaris. For the vast majority of them, the existence of a viable
GNU/Solaris project and distro makes Solaris (and ultimately ZFS[2],
Zones, DTrace, SMF, etc!) finally worth trying for the first time.
soap-box mode on:
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, OpenSolaris is and should
be an integral part of -- not the UNIX-pure community -- but the broader
UNIX/Linux community. (Why self-isolate ourselves from such an _immense_
pool of scientists, engineers, and programmers from which undoubtedly
many future innovations will come?!)
That's why I don't think we want all OpenSolaris-based distros to be
strictly Solaris/UNIX compliant.
Eric
[1]: See:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/patrickf?entry=opensolaris_on_lugradio
[2]: Feeding-frenzy alert: In 6 days, the ZFS mail-list has seen ~200
messages by ~70 different people!
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