On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:07:08PM -0800, Erast Benson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 14:24 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:21:45PM -0800, Alex Ross wrote: > > > 2) 2,300 Debian packages available for immediate usage. > > > > [...] > > > > > There are probably very few projects that can come anywhere close to > > > Nexenta OS, > > > in terms of the size, > > > > 2300 << 15000, by my reckoning. > > very true. but Nexenta OS is not just number of packages. it also brings > something totally new and exciting to the Debian world. I'm not discounting that it's new and exciting (I wouldn't say "totally", but that's a matter of opinion), and I'm in fact quite interested in what the technical benefits of running Debian on a Solaris kernel might be for my needs. However, Alex did specifically claim that Nexenta was of unmatched size, and I was refuting that particular claim. > ...and number of packages growes as we speak. So, it is just a matter of > time. I'm actually quite surprised that you've only been able to build 2300 packages out of Debian, but I presume there's significant hurdles which I'd have trouble imagining standing in your way there. > Most hard and exciting part is to achive acceptable level of integration > between OpenSolaris Core and the rest of Debian world. Nobody did it > before. So, it is sort of not for newbies. :-) Right. You want competent, clueful, technical people to work on the project. I suspect that these are the same people who are going to be turned off (as I was) by unashamed marketing speak. In fact, your message has gotten me far more interested in Nexenta than the original did, as I can see the sort of things that need to be done and might be interested in working on some of those. - Matt
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