Will NexentaOS (GNU/OpenSolaris) succeed as a Desktop?

Posted by erast on Jun 17, 2006 3:25 AM EDT
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NexentaOS Alpha 5 (Dapper Drake 6.06) Released!

The Nexenta project, which builds a distribution combining the OpenSolaris kernel with applications from Ubuntu, has announced a new alpha release of NexentaOS: "This release provides a fully integrated Ubuntu Dapper Drake userland, OpenSolaris core (build #40), and contains overall 11800 packages. In addition, Alpha 5 contains: Sun's Java SE 5.0 Java Development Kit (via NexentaOS APT); live upgrade; and OpenOffice.org 2.0, natively compiled on Nexenta OS."

Usually closed source binaries drivers re-distributed by hardware manufactures. This is a basic way for HW companies to supply their drivers. Unfortunetly, Linux kernel does not support it. Linux kernel interfaces are unstable which creates a lot of headaches for an end users especially on a Desktop.

NexentaOS has a chance to succeed on a Desktop - it supports binary-only drivers the way Windows XP does via utilizing Kernel Device Driver API interfaces, which are stable and preserved over time.

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Still beating the dead Nexenta horse? r_a_trip 8 3,442 Jun 28, 2006 5:24 AM
very good reasons to not support binary drivers tuxchick2 2 1,659 Jun 18, 2006 3:06 PM

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