First Look: NexentaCore OS
Recently, I read about NexentaCore, a new experimental operating system that seeks to merge the functionality of a Linux user environment with the OpenSolaris OS kernel, supporting the ZFS file system. I downloaded NexentaCore, currently at version 1.01, and tried it out using VirtualBox.
While I found it strange that the CD ISO image of the NexentaCore OS was packaged inside of a zip file, it posed no problems getting the software.
NexentaCore had a fairly slow startup, but the installer was very nice once it got going. Partitioning is handled automatically (or manually, if the user would prefer doing it that way instead). After setting up the root password and a single user account, the system is ready to go.
NexentaCore is not a full desktop-oriented distribution...
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