Hi, This is to announce Nexenta Builder 1.0!
Recently released NexentaCore 1.0 is especially well suited to serve as a platform for application distributions due to Nexenta Builder 1.0, an open source packaging solution included as part of NexentaCore that enables the simple creation of 'software appliances, which are software distributions that have been optimized for the broadest possible hardware and virtual machine compatibility and for ongoing support and upgrades. This article [1] explains how interested individuals, communities and companies could create highly customized and polished NexentaCore based distributions tailored for specific verticals - 'software appliances'. With power of Debian tools, Nexenta Platform is capable of merging multiple specialized remote application repositories (APT) into a single source of packages, which allows to create and have as many distributed (but well organized!) repositories as user wants to be available to meet specific needs. Availability of Nexenta Builder and integrated APT tools opens unique capability which allows developers easy create new derived distributions and grow community around them. Such distributions could be: * LiveCDs * Embeded OpenSolaris with small footprint of 128MB or less * KDE-centric Desktop * GNOME-centric Desktop * XFCE-centric Desktop or so called 'minimalistic Unix Desktop' * Specialized Web Server appliance * Specialized Database appliance * Xen Dom0 - ZFS powered appliance * Sound Studio with best of class OSS Sound stack integrated appliance * Graphical Studio appliance * Medical appliance * Financial appliance * Game station appliance * Storage appliances, such as NexentaStor [2] (good example of commercial appliance) .. and many many others! For the benefit of humanity, developers - jump on it, express yourself! Developers and Users - join official Nexenta IRC #nexenta [3], report bugs and request new kit features via Launchpad [4]. [1] Distribution Builder: http://www.nexenta.org/os/DistributionBuilder [2] NexentaStor appliance: http://www.nexenta.com [3] IRC channel: #nexenta on irc.freenode.net [4] Bug database: https://launchpad.net/nexenta -- The Nexenta Team _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
