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Hi Neal, I started using solaris a few months ago with the same goal and have tried both Nexenta, SXCE and opensolaris. I settled with opensolaris for the following reaons: * no fuss ZFS boot - it's less of a problem these days and nexenta did that before anyone else IIRC * Solaris compatible - you want to be able to use all you know^H^H^H^H googled about solaris on your solaris box, I agree with MC here * I ran into some 64 bit issues with userland tools on Nexenta when I tried it * I heard that next release of Solaris10 will be based off opensolaris (correct me if I'm wrong) So far, I'm happy with my decision. Regards, Lester On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:22 AM, MC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The answers to your questions are: > > sxce is a legacy product and will probably be phased out by opensolaris or > something based on opensolaris > > some people want a gui-free basic opensolaris, but such a thing does not > exist because the whole point and drive behind opensolaris is to make a gui > distro > > nexentacore is the closest thing to what you're asking for, but take note > that it is made by some dedicated non-sun people, and it is not 100% > solaris-compatible (for instance the default path is not the same, making > some default utilities GNU ones which do not work with all solaris features) > > > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
