The archives for February 11th, 2008


Feb 11

Nexenta Core platform 1.0

Today it has been announced Nexenta Core platform 1,0 and I have quickly tried it on my “magical” VirtualBox. Nexenta CP is a OpenSolaris distribution minibadly, much easy one to install, usable in order to construct easy to serveur, desktop and distributions personalized for specialistiche applications. Its business card is sure filesystem the ZFS that it is today existing more advanced how much (of it I speak in this post on purpose about OpenSolaris) and is introduced with a truly important equipment of applications, enough to watch the release notes in order to become of account, however various from the distribution desktop, NexentaOS, sight not to supply a already interfacciato system with Gnome rather than Kde or Xfce ET. ; it can also be made, and exactly NexentaCP wants to be the foundation for the vertical construction diqualsiasi type of OS, thanks also to the Debian instruments of which it is equipped (beyond that on OpenSolaris it is based also on Ubuntu Dapper).
The installation is simple even if a little complex and from the diagram, as it is obvious that or for a product of this type, minievil. As I have installed it to saying on a virtual machine with 512 Mb di 8 Ram and Gb of hard disk; here the screenshots:

Feb 11

Ubuntu and Red hat the most used to Enterprise level

Ubuntu and Red Hat are the distro linux more used to Enterprise level; from a surveying of Alfresco
(web society content management) turns out that before it is attested on a percentage of 35%, while “cappuccetto” on 23%. Surprise, but not even a lot, between the customers windows with beautiful a 2% for Sight, 63% for XP, 28% for Windows Serveur 2003. Tomcat dominating of the serveur category with 72% and 18% to JBoss. In the virtualizzazione VMware 61%, Microsoft's Virtual Server 16%, Xen, Parallels, Virtual Iron to follow.
Precise Alfresco that the surveys have been made with participants of 260 countries thus distributed: 50% Europe, Middle East and Asia, 24% United States, 26% other nations.