NexentaOS (elatte) Alpha 3 released

[John Richard Moser]

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Erast Benson wrote:
> 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.
> 

Oh it boots faster, yeah.  The more responsive thing, I'm not seeing; I
launch a program and it goes *groan* :(

>> 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.
> 

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