Nexenta combines OpenSolaris, GNU, and Ubuntu

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 13, 2006 8:04 AM EDT
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What do you get when you combine OpenSolaris, the GNU utilities, and Ubuntu? Nexenta -- a GNU-based open source operating system built on top of the OpenSolaris kernel and runtime. I took the Alpha 5 release out for a spin to see how well it's progressing. It might sound like an odd combination, but after more than a year of development, it actually works well, and is shaping up to be a very interesting operating system.

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