Comments on: Some Install News: Nexenta, Personal Wikis and Xgl

By: Dennis Clarke

Dennis Clarke — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:36:23 +0000

Standards standards and more standards. Why so many and yet we never seem to comply? I was reading this and thought, hey, wha-da-ya-mean we don’t put applications in standard locations? Oh, I get it. You mean the Linux “standard”? Or some other standard? Truth is, the standard location for applications from vendors other than the UNIX vendor is in the /opt filesystem and NOT in /usr or /usr/local etc etc. The Linux world has another way of doing things and it should be violently ignored by UNIX software vendors that wish to comply with the UNIX standard. Just go and install my favorite big commercial app server Lotus Domino and you will see it neatly installed into /opt/lotus. Those guys at IBM comply with the standards and the Government sectors love them for it. So does Sun and so does Blastwave. All the software and libraries and dependencies from Blastwave go into /opt/csw and I wish there was a way to tell the Linux world that they are “UNIX-like” and not UNIX.

Dennis Clarke
Director Blastwave.org

By: David Comay

David Comay — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:57:45 +0000

Stephen, I’m surprised your ssh wasn’t
enabled by default since Solaris 10
does ship it that way. In fact, it’s
been enabled by default since Solaris 9
shipped a number of years ago.

By: stephen o'grady

stephen o'grady — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:36:19 +0000

Luis: i think you hit on a key component of the note taking experience, which is search. beagle’s ability to crawl Tomboy, as you note, is a great feature.

appreciate the thoughts on the GNOME/KDE adoption, and pretty much agree.

Fraxas: thx for the tip, will definitely check in w/ Tim. also have heard from Nexenta directly, and they have a V20Z alpha version for me.

didier: thx for the suggestion; i’m now on TW near full time.

Nexenta: will def follow up - thx for posting.

Daniel: be very interested in hearing about running Zimbra in Xen on Solaris. i’ve been telling Zimbra for a while that they should support Solaris, but that’s a nice interim solution.

By: Daniel Mersebak

Daniel Mersebak — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:30:08 +0000

When reading Your blog, I said to myself. Steve is reading my minds and saying exactly what I think.

Nexenta IS the perfect blend between a superior package tool, and a kernel/OS, which is know for quality and stability as the highest priority.

As soon, as XEN, Dom0 is available under Nexenta (During this summer I hope), I will be a new hoster on a SunV20.

I want to roll out a zimbra server as well, which is the reason I have to run a XEN slice with Linux as well. But as long as the Host is OpenSolaris I will be happy
I supply my email, if U get any experiences U like to share. As well I can dump my experiences here, or drop them in a mail, I U should be interested.

Best regards, Daniel Mersebak

By: Nexenta Systems, Inc.

Nexenta Systems, Inc. — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:43:18 +0000

Stephen, it is absolutely encouraging to find that you’re willing to replace an existing Solaris installation with that of NexentaOS! Please send us any feedbacks, and we definitely will do our best to ensure that you’re a satisfied user. Thanks!

By: didier

didier — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:51:29 +0000

“my need for a local wiki instance is growing more and more pronounced.”

TiddlyWiki : http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ ?

By: Fraxas

Fraxas — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:49:55 +0000

The only other person I’ve heard mention Nexenta is Mr. Bray. I know he runs on Sun kit, so that might be worth checking out.

By: Luis

Luis — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 04:37:34 +0000

And obviously I have a bias, but I thnk IBM’s KDE bias comes from its engineers- no doubt that KDE is the more engineer/admin/hacker friendly desktop, and so any shop that looks heavily to its tech folks for leadership is going to lean more in that direction. In general, I think looking towards what your tech people are doing is very smart- and IBM has learned to do it because they sell primarrily to techies, so listening to their own techies makes good business sense. But in this particular case I don’t think it will work out for them- the Linux desktop will only be healthy and successful in the long term if it delivers the ease of use regular people need, and GNOME is doing that much better than KDE is, exactly because of that geek-unfriendliness (for better and for worse.)

By: Luis

Luis — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 04:33:33 +0000

Ironically, Steven, a few days after I posted that, I started setting up a local instance of Trac for personal usage (primarily as a Getting Things Done tool.) I still love Tomboy and will probably continue using it as my primary notetaking tool (partially because of safe/easy save, partially because it can be searched with beagle) but like you say the addition of other features is critical. Like you say, this is underserved; I think there is a space on all platforms for this kind of functionality (ideally in native apps, since with all major platforms having integrated local search soon, web apps for storing personal data are going to take a hit if they aren't integrated into either (1) google/msn/yahoo search or (2) local search.)