[indiana-discuss] Ok here come my 2c

[Shawn Walker]

On 10/06/07, Andrew M.A. Cater <amacater at galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> If you want to do this right, get Sun to take over Nexenta and negotiate
> with Debian to make the stuff part of Debian :)  If the whole of Solaris
> is possibly going to be licensable under GPL3, then most everythings
> done. Debian is Linux done right on multiple architectures - I've run
> Debian for sparc on a Sun Sparc 20 which I'd have hesitated with Solaris
> on. As a datum point today: Nexenta just hangs on the 32 bit machine
> next to me which is fairly ordinary - Pentium III motherboard at 1GHz,
> 768MB of RAM, 3 x 160GB hard disks and an old Nvidia graphics card.

At that point, it wouldn't even be recognisable as Solaris anymore and
would merely be a duplication of Nexenta. I don't see the point.

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Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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