January 27, 2009, 1:40 pm
Last time I talked about a desktop on NCP, it was about Gnome. Continuing work on the desktop by community members in Nexenta now allows for XFCE on NCP2.
XFCE on NCP2, Click to see full size
To get this desktop running on your Nexenta install, run
apt-get install xorg
#configure X (or copy a working xorg.conf file over)
Xorg -configure
apt-get install xfce4
Once done, you can start the desktop runnign startx. To install a login manager, run
apt-get install gdm
Come over to #nexenta, and give your thanks to Jason (wavejumper) who has been working on XFCE packages.
December 22, 2008, 2:41 am
The first beta release of NCP2 was released yesterday. This release was bug fix release with a big leap in the opensolaris build (from the previous b85+ to b104+).
Also, most of the common server applications now have SMF support. The latest version of devzones is also included. For the full announcement and release highlights, see here.
* OpenSolaris build 104+ based with critical patches.
* Over 6000 packages in the repository, and autobuilder.
* Based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) repository
* This includes latest dpkg/apt, gcc, binutils, coreutils,
perl, python, ruby, Qt libs, GTK libs, etc
* SMF support added for server applications like apache, mysql, postgresql, exim4, etc.
* 100% native Debian environment, easy to upgrade, easy to use
* Includes Vim and screen by default
* Addition of latest devzone version to the CD.
* Includes apt-clone which brings zfs power to apt-get.
So get your copy hot off the presses now. Links below
Nexenta: http://www.nexenta.org
Beta Download: nexenta-core-platform_2.0-b104-beta1_x86.iso.zip
For comments/solutions and queries goto the #nexenta IRC room at freenode.
