Kicking the tires on Nexenta
I can never leave anything alone, especially if it's an OS I've not played with before. I ordered a free copy of Sun's Open Solaris Starter Kit mid-May, and took some time this evening to boot its three included distributions; Nexenta, Belenix, and Schillix. There are better reviews of these distributions if you google for them (especially Nexenta), so there's nothing special or new I can disclose. I can, however, provide an additional perspective you may find useful.
The three distributions come on a single DVD, and when the DVD boots you're presented with a GRUB screen that allows you to pick between the three distributions, as well as variations within each. For example, there are six different ways to boot Nexenta. I chose the 32-bit version. I tried to boot all three, sticking with Nexenta for further reviewing because it operated the best of the three.
The system Nexenta booted on was europa. This is the machine that runs Open Suse 10.2. Here's a short list of what I discovered.
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