On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 11:17 -0800, UNIX admin wrote: > > Please don't confuse people. What you just said is > > simply a lie. > > What exactly would be my motivation to lie? I might be wrong -- ignorant > even, but lying about something like this would be rediculous.
OK. May be "lie" is too strong wording here. My appollogies. > > Nexenta uses exactly the same ON an NWS bits as any > > other OpenSolaris > > distribution out there. And starting from Alpha6, we > > now fully support > > native Sun userland command tools which previously > > has been disabled. > > OK, so you are referring to something that has either come out recently or > that will come out. > > > Just set your shell in /etc/passwd to /sbin/sh and > > enjoy with pure > > Solaris environment. > > >From what I can tell, and do correct me, it seems that Nexenta is using both > >System V packages and Debian DPKG. Is this the case? > > Either everything has to be reengineered and repackaged for DPKG, or there is > a hybrid model here. > > In both cases, perhaps out of my ignorance, I fail to see how you could > release Nexenta on the same schedule or earlier as the onnv builds. Even if > we assume that you automated the entire process, this automated process will > take time. > > This is my logic. You correct me if my logic is wrong. > > Regardless of the errors of my ways, I stand by my core statement, and that > is that if one wants to learn Solaris proper, Nexenta is not the best choice. I agree if he wants to learn Solaris - let him go with Solaris 10. But if he wants to learn OpenSolaris, it is totally OK to go with any distribution around. OpenSolaris distros are differ in many areas, but at the core - they *are* still the same. -- Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
