Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 RC2 Released
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjI3OQ
Nexenta - get an aptitude for OpenSolaris
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| Nexenta Core Platform (NexentaCP) Release Candidate 2 is now available. Here
| you can download Nexenta CD images and burn them yourself using your CD/DVD
| writer. Please visit Getting Started for a quick tour, screenshots, and
| installation instructions.
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http://www.nexenta.org/os/Download
More on technical progress the Linux kernel:
Kernel space: The Linux trace toolkit's next generation
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| Kernel debugging systems can slow the kernel enough to hide or change the
| bugs they're looking for. A new tracing system would minimize the performance
| penalty of running with tracing on.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;466857291;fp;4;fpid;1968336438
The low-down on the Linux High-Availability Project
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| Simon Horman works as a software engineer for VA Linux Systems Japan. In his
| downtime he also busies himself working on open source projects such as
| kexec-tools, kexec for Xen IA64, the Linux Virtual Server Project, and the
| Linux High-Availability Project, which seeks to provide high availability
| clustering solutions for Linux.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;53834736
Related:
Solaris can never be Linux
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| Things haven't changed much at Sun. When Sun launched its
| OpenSolaris project in 2005 it used the Common Development and
| Distribution Licence - which is incompatible with the GPL - and
| some system code was not released.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12116/1090/
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