Taking a Look at Nexenta's Blend of Solaris and Ubuntu 248
Ahmed Kamal writes "What happens when you take a solid system such as Ubuntu Hardy, unplug its Linux kernel, and plug in a replacement OpenSolaris kernel? Then you marry Debian's apt-get to Solaris' zfs file-system? What you get is Nexenta Core Platform OS. Let's take Nexenta for a quick spin, installing and configuring this young but promising system."
Better Proposed Names... (Score:5, Funny)
But seriously, sounds like a great idea.
Re:Better Proposed Names... (Score:5, Funny)
How about Usuntzu?
Fool around with Linux names on /. and you're dabbling in the art of war....
Re:More stories like this (Score:5, Funny)
Real slashdotters use lots of the nice checkboxes to change their preferences. Nerds are complex beasts.
Re:Better Proposed Names... (Score:5, Funny)
Or at least confucius the issue.
Re:Better Proposed Names... (Score:5, Funny)
Why are you making this so difficult?
Clearly this new distro should be called GNU/Solaris.
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What happens when... (Score:5, Funny)
> you... unplug its Linux kernel, and plug in a[n]... OpenSolaris kernel...
What happens?
Neither Linus nor Richard are happy.
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Somnambulent sounds like a good trade mark for sleeping pill. I'm getting somnolent just thinking about it.
Did you get an urge to walk around while asleep as well?
Re:Even if.... (Score:4, Funny)
In this case, the GPL is the problem. The CDDL is a per-file license. This is why Apple can put ZFS and DTrace into OS X, linking directly against their code. Because the CDDL'd code they get from OpenSolaris is under a per-file license. The same is true of FreeBSD - they can put ZFS code into their kernel and the CDDL only affects those portions of the kernel. People who don't want to use ZFS still get a BSDL kernel, people who do get a BSDL kernel with a few CDDL components. Linux, on the other hand, can't incorporate any of this code, because of the GPL.
The CDDL isn't the only license to be incompatible with the GPL. The FSF maintains a long list of Free Software licenses which are incompatible with the GPL [fsf.org]. Other notable examples include the Apache Software License (version 2 is compatible with GPLv3), the Apple Public Source License, and the Mozilla Public License. None of these license place any requirements on the final product, only on the code released under that license, and so all three can be mixed together without issue.
Re:Better Proposed Names... (Score:4, Funny)
i don't think i'd take a sleeping pill that causes sleep walking.
but maybe if they marketed it as a diet pill that lets you lose weight while sleeping...
Re:Better Proposed Names... (Score:2, Funny)
S o l A R i s
_U B u n t U
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Re:Get me a Redhat/Centos userland (Score:3, Funny)
Who knew that a company based in the same city as MIT and Harvard might be able to find a few people who are good technologists AND some who are good at business
MIT and Harvard relocated to the Triangle too? Jeez! ;-)
Re:More stories like this (Score:4, Funny)
Real Slashdotters use Lynx and despise checkboxes.
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Re:More stories like this (Score:5, Funny)
George Bush was keeping stories like this off Slashdot. Now that Obama's elected, we won't have any politically-charged stories. ;)
Re:Better Proposed Names... (Score:1, Funny)
How about Gesundheit!
Re:Better Proposed Names... (Score:2, Funny)
"Somnambulent" is a real word, which makes it unusable to pharma companies. Maybe "Somnioxx," or "Somnagra".
That's just what I want. A pill that puts me to sleep and then gives me a hardon.
That explains my state when I wake up, someone's been drugging me without my knowledge!
Re:where's the ubuntu? (Score:3, Funny)
So you got them from Ubuntu.
I wonder where Ubuntu got them?