Nexenta OS
Details
| Last Update: | 2008-02-05 23:01:34 |
| Version: | RC4 |
| License/Program Type: | GPL (GNU General Public License) |
| Publisher: | Nexenta Systems, Inc. |
| Price: | $0.00 |
Description:
Nexenta is a complete GNU-based open source operating system
built on top of the OpenSolaris kernel and runtime.
It is a result of our inspiration and desire to build a great
system based on the best existing software: SunOS kernel and GNU
software. We use Debian - one of the best existing software
distribution/packaging mechanisms - to glue the numerous pieces
together.
At the moment, Nexenta is not part of the Debian Project. Our
packages are not present in the Debian database. We are hoping that
in the future this will change and our packages will get their
"upstream acceptance".
Nexenta OS has been a hard and challenging work, yet every bit
of it is fun! We spent many hours building the system and today it
is out - it'll start speaking for itself.
Nexenta is completely open source and free of any charge.
It contains Apache, MySQL, Perl/Python/PHP, Firefox, Evolution,
software update manager, Synaptic package manager, Gaim Instant
Messenger, abiword, administration & development utilities,
editors, graphics, GNOME, interpreters, libraries and many others.
All of this is running on the state-of-the-art SunOS kernel. Visit
our ScreenShots gallery to see them all in action.
There's a huge and growing multitude of software: the kernel,
network services, databases, utilities, user applications. There is
a conglomerate of code and hardware that is constantly changing,
improving, and altogether getting more complicated. Somebody once
rightly said: free software is only free if time has no value.
Nexenta distribution integrates well over 2,300 packages. It
installs, runs and upgrades. It delivers!
Nexenta software packages (for the most part) are originated
from Ubuntu (Breezy) Linux. Ubuntu (yet another excellent
distribution that uses DEB software packaging) contains more than
16,000+ software packages. One of our goals is to make them all
available for use on top of our environment.
Today Nexenta runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit x86/x64 platforms.
As a prove of relative maturity and a confidence booster - this web
portal and the entire development environment (including Bugs and
HackZone) are powered by Nexenta.
Nexenta makes its first steps into the big world. We invite you
to join us and participate too! Help us make Nexenta the best
operating environment in the world! Help us test Nexenta on your
laptops, desktops, and servers. Help us improve our web portal,
translate Nexenta into your own language, add new applications,
enhance existing ones and define a set of software to be used in
the future releases.
This is a complete Nexenta OS with select applications on a
single CD with network and GNOME environment.
The LiveCD image can be burned into a bootable CD-R/CD-RW,
and/or it can be booted in VMWare or QEMU environments. Our LiveCD
contains support for 32- and 64-bit x86/x64 platforms.
Here are some key features of "Nexenta
OS":
Major Features
· OpenSolaris kernel build 26
Specifically for Desktop:
· GNOME 2.12.1
· Complete GNOME Office (Abiword, Gnumeric, GNOME-DB,
Inkspace, GIMP, Gnomemeeting, Dia)
· X.org 6.8.2 with wider hardware support
· Synaptic package management and Automatic Update
notifier
· Nexenta artworks with "Solar" theme
· Integrated DBUS, HAL (work in progress)
· KDE libraries, GNOME 1.x libraries
· Nice Fonts collection
Server applications:
· Apache1 (1.3.33), Apache2 (2.0.54) next generation,
scalable, extendable web server
· PHP4, PHP5 with all sort of extensions
· Perl 5.8.7 with varios CPAN modules pre-built
· Python-2.2, Python-2.3, Python-2.4 with various
extension modules
· Java: JRE-1.5.0 and GNU gnj and classpath
· Ruby-1.8 with all sort of extensions
· Subversion, CVS, others...
Simplified (minimal) installer:
· Script-based installer.
· Automatically makes existing hard drive partitions
available to the desktop
"Under the hood"
· Debian packaging (including SUNW packages)
· Mostly compiled with GCC 4.0.1, but GCC-3.4 and Sun
Devpro is also used
· More modular X.org packaging, latest CVS bits
· HAL integrational work (ongoing)
Login:
- user: root
- password: livecd
What's New in This Release:
· This version is based on OpenSolaris build 82
(non-debug) plus critical fixes from b83.
· Storage consolidation was updated with build 82.
· More network drivers (sfe, igb) were added.
· NFS and CIFS server fixes were made.
· Xen Dom0 fixes were made (but are still
experimental).
· The installer now supports installation on USB and
other removable devices.
· The APT repository was further cleaned up, and more
applications were uploaded.
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