UNIX admin wrote:
I could download Nexenta, which I believe uses
Debian's apt (something that I absolutely love) and
GNU tools. Does it mean I will miss out on anything
that is Solaris-specific?
Of course you will. Nexenta is Ubuntu with an OpenSolaris kernel core and
OpenSolaris userland mixed with GNU that Ubuntu comes with.
If you really, honestly want to learn Solaris proper, then you should stick
with (Open)Solaris.
If you plan to run Solaris in production, Nexenta is most likely not what you
want, nor will it ever be, unless you are keen on babysitting your servers.
There is a tremendous amount of (re)engineering work that goes into Nexenta to
graft Ubuntu on top of an OpenSolaris core, and this is why Nexenta will always
lame behind (Open)Solaris proper.
Except that Nexenta got a build based on snv_53 out of the door before
Sun has!
I don't think it is at all fair to say they would always be behind, they
will be different by design. They may include features before each other.
Belenix for example already ships with compression support in lofi but
Solaris Express doesn't.
--
Darren J Moffat
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