warfly
June 28th, 2006, 01:15 AM
After playing with Nexenta (http://www.gnusolaris.org) for a while, I'm quite impressed about all the Solaris specific features - especially ZFS, SMF, Zones and etc integrated nicely with familiar Ubuntu desktop environment.
It seems that Sun and Ubuntu have been in friendly terms lately, so wouldn't it be unreasonable to expect Ubuntu 'Solaris' in forseable future?
Of course, they need to change their license to something compatible with GPL first. But as they explicitly said they'd do that, and Nexenta already showed it's technically possible so I guess it's not too irrational to assume it could happen as long as both of the companies/communities are willing.
I guess it'd also bring Ubuntu some advantage in enterprise market over other distros - notably RedHat.
So, how do you think about that possiblity? Even as a desktop user, I'd really glad to have at least ZFS available on my Ubuntu Edgy box, so I could just rollback to the previous snapshot when something gone south while upgrading :)
It seems that Sun and Ubuntu have been in friendly terms lately, so wouldn't it be unreasonable to expect Ubuntu 'Solaris' in forseable future?
Of course, they need to change their license to something compatible with GPL first. But as they explicitly said they'd do that, and Nexenta already showed it's technically possible so I guess it's not too irrational to assume it could happen as long as both of the companies/communities are willing.
I guess it'd also bring Ubuntu some advantage in enterprise market over other distros - notably RedHat.
So, how do you think about that possiblity? Even as a desktop user, I'd really glad to have at least ZFS available on my Ubuntu Edgy box, so I could just rollback to the previous snapshot when something gone south while upgrading :)