NexentaOS (elatte) Alpha 3 released

[John Richard Moser]

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I tried alpha 2, my assessment was that the OS was indeed alpha quality
but good for its alphaness; while the solaris kernel was like a billion
times slower than Linux.  Programs visibly launched slow, stuff was just
slow.

Why are you announcing on ubuntu-devel?  Is Nexenta eventually going to
be a slower version of Ubuntu?

Alex Ross wrote:
> NexentaOS (elatte) Alpha 3 is now available for download at:
> 
> http://www.gnusolaris.org/Download
> 
> This release contains 3,596 packages, and in particular:
> 
> * OpenOffice 2.0 (distributed with both InstallCD and LiveCD).
> 
> * Storage Subsystem (thanks to OpenSolaris Storage Community!)
> 
> * OpenSolaris build #34, non-DEBUG kernel.
> 
> In addition, Alpha 3 provides:
> 
> * LiveCD
> 
>    The LiveCD "Alpha 2" problem is now fixed. Also, we were able to fit in
>    the entire OpenOffice 2.0 suite (110MB compressed) into the LiveCD
> image, and
>    still keep the result below 700MB, which is suitable for most CD
> writers.
>    The trick: ZFS compression.
> 
> * NexentaOS Installer: added time zone management. The Alpha 3 Installer
> will
>    upgrade from both Alpha 1 and Alpha 2, will recognize removable
> drives, and
>    more.
> 
> NexentaOS Alpha 3 is the first partially-automatically-built release. To
> see the
> ongoing builds, please visit:
> 
> http://www.gnusolaris.org/cgi-bin/hackzone-web
> 
> And to actually put the builder to work:
> 
> http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/HackZoneNotify
> 
> Everybody's invited!
> 
> Thanks!
> 

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