NexentaOS (elatte) Alpha 3 released

[Erast Benson]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 00:05 -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
> 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.

I'm seeing exactly opposite picture on my comparison HW (2-way amd64).
It boots noticeably faster than Ubuntu/Breezy mostly because system
services are SMF-backed and allows parallel execution. GUI applications
starts much faster and system seems more responsive due to kernel's
built-in real-time scheduler.

> Why are you announcing on ubuntu-devel?

Because essentially, NexentaOS is a GNU/Solaris Ubuntu.

>   Is Nexenta eventually going to be a slower version of Ubuntu?

Hmm... a faster and different version of Ubuntu... :-)
Seriously, it is not an easy task to make a fair comparison between two
systems even though they built from the same bits, except that kernel
and libc are different. I think NexentaOS performance is not the only
factor to consider. Think about a stability/scalability/maintainability
factors? One could consider Ubuntu GNU/Solaris as a perfect server
solution.

-- 
Erast