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| 2008-12-20 |
Development Release: Nexenta Core Platform 2.0 Beta 1 |
| Anil Gulecha has announced the availability of the first beta release of Nexenta Core Platform (NCP) 2.0, a free and open source distribution combining the OpenSolaris kernel with Ubuntu userland: "This is to announce availability of Nexenta Core 2.0 beta - an Ubuntu/OpenSolaris native environment (unstable 'Hardy' branch). The packages are relatively stable, and we've thus moved NCP to beta, and aim for a stable release early next year. Release highlights: OpenSolaris build 104+ with critical patches; over 6000 packages in the repository, and autobuilder; based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 'Hardy Heron' repository; includes latest APT, GCC, Binutils, Coreutils, Perl, Python, Ruby, Qt libraries, GTK+ libraries; SMF support added for server applications like Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Exim; includes apt-clone which brings ZFS power to apt-get." Here is the complete release announcement. Download: nexenta-core-platform_2.0-b104-beta1_x86.iso.zip (436MB). |
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| About Nexenta |
| Nexenta OS is a free and open source operating system combining the OpenSolaris kernel with GNU application userland. Nexenta OS runs on Intel/AMD 32-/64-bit hardware and is distributed as a single installable CD. Upgrades and binary packages not included on the CD can be installed from Nexenta OS repository using Advanced Packaging Tool. In addition, source based software components can be downloaded from network repositories available at Debian/GNU Linux and Ubuntu Linux. |
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