Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 14, 2006 06:38 AM
Sure, there's a certain coolness factor from being able to build something like Nexenta. I liken it to why some Debian folks built Debian GNU/NetBSD--because they could, and that's a noble goal in and of itself that should never, ever be discouraged. That same goal resulted in GNU/Linux and NetBSD/OpenBSD in the first place.
However, as an enterprise system, I don't see why someone would want to use basically Debian/Ubuntu with the Solaris kernel. We already have Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu GNU/Linux, two really good FOSS distros that are both exceedingly well supported by their respective communities (the latter by an actual corporation, Canonical Ltd.). I'm running Kubuntu right now on my desktop because it makes business sense for me to do it. I run either Debian or Ubuntu Server on several of my multi-core servers because it makes business sense for me to do it (the kernel Linux supports up to what, 32 CPUs?). Most of my servers are 2- and 4-core, and I've even got some eight-core Opteron boxes here on which Linux 2.6 just flies.
That's really the bottom line for an enterprise. Is there some tangible business benefit that I could show my boss to running Nexenta (even the final version) on my desktops or servers instead of Debian or Ubuntu?
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Why Nexenta when I already have Debian/Ubuntu?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 14, 2006 06:38 AMHowever, as an enterprise system, I don't see why someone would want to use basically Debian/Ubuntu with the Solaris kernel. We already have Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu GNU/Linux, two really good FOSS distros that are both exceedingly well supported by their respective communities (the latter by an actual corporation, Canonical Ltd.). I'm running Kubuntu right now on my desktop because it makes business sense for me to do it. I run either Debian or Ubuntu Server on several of my multi-core servers because it makes business sense for me to do it (the kernel Linux supports up to what, 32 CPUs?). Most of my servers are 2- and 4-core, and I've even got some eight-core Opteron boxes here on which Linux 2.6 just flies.
That's really the bottom line for an enterprise. Is there some tangible business benefit that I could show my boss to running Nexenta (even the final version) on my desktops or servers instead of Debian or Ubuntu?
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