> I downloaded it out of curiosity. Looks like it's > based on 2008.11 or close?! uname -a contains the > string "NexentaOS_20081207". The included FF is > 3.0.5. The forum posts indicate this is a one man > show. Upon boot of the live CD, it complains about > Gnome not being installed properly, and I ran gimp > (which took forever to load) and it's over two years > old. > > All that together doesn't inspire me to put my eggs > in this basket (yet). Have to see where it goes.
The iso you downloaded is quite out of date. It is a rolling release now, so not a regular distro upgrade like OpenSolaris or Ubuntu. I believe the repo is going to be based on debian sid now, so it will be quite bleeding edge for Solaris, that part sounds great. Access to latest debian packages, yeehaa! I'm not sure about Xfce though, would have preferred KDE or Gnome myself. The problem is though, at the moment the latest StormOS iso is old and to update it you have to change the repository to the new one "hail" instead of "hardy-hail" as it's no longer based off hardy packages. The problem is, it's built on NCP 2, and updating to NCP 3 fails. Basically, unless I'm wrong (if so please tell me) we can't yet try out the latest StormsOS because the upgrade path is broken. Once StormOS have released a new iso based off NCP 3 with the latest repo + base packages, then we can give it a go. Hopefully it won't be long, I'm itching to try it out, not much else to do while we wait for illumos. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
