[DLSLUG-Discuss] DLSLUG Notes 5-April-2007: Todd Underwood on ZFS

[Bill McGonigle]

Great write-up, thanks, Ted.

On Apr 8, 2007, at 13:15, Ted Roche wrote:

>  Todd expressed the
> opinion that running on Solaris or OpenSolaris is likely the best
> current solutions.

Following up on Todd's lament about the lack of anything useful in  
Solaris (agreed - I'm a SunFreeware.com refuge from a former life) I  
came across Nexenta:

   http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=nexenta

a GNU/Solaris distro based on apt/dpkg and taking code from Debian  
and Ubuntu.  It has ZFS since last fall.

Has anybody tried it out?  It looks promising.

Aside: I saw some interesting ancillary discussion about what happens  
to Debian if OpenSolaris goes GPL3 and Linux stays GPL2....

-Bill

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