> OK, someone 'splain me somethin'.... > > I get how Solaris and OpenSolaris work, what packages > are, IPS, how to install stuff, and all that. Been > doing it for a couple decades. And by the way, I'm > still holding out hope for the Solaris 11 developer > release to effectively replace OpenSolaris. But I > digress. > > I don't understand much about Linux, so I'm very > confused at how Nexenta and StormOS are "based on > Ubuntu", as the Nexenta web site says. It seems to > me it's based on (Open)Solaris. What exactly is the > tie-in with Ubuntu and/or Linux? I find this very > confusing. > > Thanks, and please don't just point me to one of > their web pages--that's already why I'm confused.
The kernel is OpenSolaris; the userland (most of the commands and such) are mostly Debian. Thus, except for features unique to OpenSolaris, it would be more familiar to someone accustomed to Debian or Ubuntu. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
