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Anil Gulecha |
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| Day | DebConf Day 5 (2010-08-05) |
| Room | Davis Auditorium |
| Start time | 15:00 |
| Duration | 01:00 |
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| ID | 643 |
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The Nexenta Project: OpenSolaris + apt + GNU
A look at the enterprise class distribution combining the power of OpenSolaris with the usability of GNU
The Nexenta project started in 2005 as a port of Ubuntu LTS (Dapper Drake 6.06) to OpenSolaris. It is now the most popular non-Sun distribution based on OpenSolaris. It also forms the basis of multiple community and commercial distributions. This talk traces the history of the Nexenta project, it's relationship with the Debian project, and the opportunities for collaboration.
The Nexenta project started in 2005 as a port of Ubuntu Edgy Eft to OpenSolaris. It is now the most popular non-Sun distribution based on OpenSolaris. It also forms the basis of multiple community and commercial distributions. This talk traces the history of the Nexenta project, it's relationship with the Debian project, and the opportunities for collaboration.
The talk is divided into the following parts:
(Non technical)
- History of the project : Traces the project to it's current state. Talks about milestones, community, and the statistics reached.
(Technical)
- How does Nexenta project combine OpenSolaris with GNU/dpkg/apt
- integration of apt packaging system, and challenges faced.
- Changes/modifications made to existing Debian tools
- Additional tools written
- apt-clone: how Nexenta provides worry free upgrades.
- Advantages OpenSolaris beings to the table
- How the OpenSolaris kernel and packages are built
- The Devzone and Autobuilder projects
- Easy provisioning of developer zones on Nexenta
- Nexenta's autobuilder - building 8000 packages in a month on 2 nodes.
(Non technical)
- History with the Debian project : Traces previous discussions with the Debian community, and the results. Will tackle the concerns raised by the developers, and talks about the existing collaboration that exists
- Current possiblities for collaboration: Can we get over some of the existing challenges, and work more closer
- Official Port: Nexenta project is interested in working towards becoming an additional kernel provided by the Debian project. This is mutually beneficial to both projects. Will discuss the main challenges faced, and thoughts on tackline these.