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| 2009-02-25 |
Development Release: Nexenta Core Platform 2.0 Beta 2 |
| Anil Gulecha has announced the availability of the second beta release of Nexenta Core Platform 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 2. This is our second beta, and includes many bug fixes and issues resolved after the first beta release. Release highlights: OpenSolaris build 104+ with critical patches; over 13,000 packages in the repository; based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 'Hardy Heron' repository; includes latest dpkg/APT, GCC, Binutils, Coreutils, Perl, Python, Ruby, Qt and GTK+ libraries; SMF support added for server applications like Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Exim; 100% native Debian environment, easy to upgrade, easy to use; includes Vim and screen by default; addition of latest devzone version to the CD; includes apt-clone which brings ZFS power to apt-get." Here is the brief release announcement. Download the zipped ISO image from here: nexenta-core-platform_2.0-b104-beta2_x86.iso.zip (440MB). |
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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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