Anil Gulecha has just announced the immediate release of Nexenta Core Platform 2 RC1 on the Nexenta mailing list.
Highlights of this release:
- OpenSolaris build 104+ based with critical patches.
- Over 13000 packages in the repository, thanks to the autobuilder.
- Smooth upgrade path from NCP1.
- Community driver efforts bringing xorg, xfce4 and gnome-core into the repository
- Based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) repository
- This includes latest dpkg/apt, gcc, binutils, coreutils, perl, python, ruby, Qt libs, GTK libs, etc
- SMF support added for server applications like apache, mysql, postgresql, exim4, etc.
- 100% native Debian environment, easy to upgrade, easy to use.
- Includes Vim and screen by default.
- Addition of latest devzone version to the CD.
- Includes apt-clone which brings zfs power to apt-get.
RC1 also includes the addition of experimental 128-bit x86 processor support.
Sounds like a great foundation for StormOS.
