logic involved

The Nexenta Project is taking an interesting approach to assemble an operating system: they take the kernel from OpenSolaris and the userland from Ubuntu.

So they get:

• the stability, security and advanced system management and development tools from OpenSolaris (DTrace, ZFS, …),
• the package repository from Debian,
• and the easy-to-use desktop from Ubuntu.

If you are looking at an interesting weekend project, trying it in VMWare might be just what you are looking for!

I tried the release candidate of Ubuntus latest version this weekend.

And I’m deeply impressed – it’s the very first time that I had a Linux version that worked just out of the box. Video drivers, mouse, even WLAN. The UI is just nice to look at, work with and intuitive.

Ubuntu 8.10 final will be released on November 1, 2008. Check ubuntu.com for more details.