jonathan carter

Recently, I discovered that Mark Shuttleworth created a Nexenta team on Launchpad. I didn’t immediately think anything about it, then this morning I discovered Nexenta on the Launchpad distributons page. Nexenta is a GNU distribution with the OpenSolaris kernel, currently based on the Debian system. Are they (Nexenta) planning to move over to Ubuntu for a base system? Does this mean we’ll have a Solaris for human beings shortly? Perhaps we’ll just have to wait for an announcement

Either way, I think it’s great that other distributions are adopting Ubuntu, even if it’s not a Linux distribution. It simply means that they have much less to worry about. I would’ve love to see a GNU system (as in, a system with a GNU/Mach kernel) based on Ubuntu as well. I see there’s already a Debian GNU version available. Perhaps just a matter of time?

On another note, I’m also syndicated on Ubuntu Planet now. “Does this planet make my head look big?”

UPDATE:

A few people have let me know that Nexenta has in fact always been based on Ubuntu. I assumed they were based on Debian, since their home page still says their based on Debian, although, you can see the Ubuntu update manager in the very first screenshot of nexenta, http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/ScreenShots?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=tmp.thumbnail.gnusolaris-screenshot.jpg