Anil Gulecha's Musings » osnews http://www.gulecha.org Anil Gulecha's Musings Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:44:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Devzone article on OSnews http://www.gulecha.org/2008/12/22/devzone-article-on-osnews/ http://www.gulecha.org/2008/12/22/devzone-article-on-osnews/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:04:46 +0000 admin http://www.gulecha.org/?p=152 I just published a devzone article on OSnews.

Devzone

Devzone

From the blurb:

Devzones, short for development zones, is a type of virtualization found in the Nexenta distribution. It can be used to define a base developer environment, which can be easily cloned many times. These copies can easily be destroyed and recreated. Devzones are built upon Opensolaris Zones, which are extensions of a chroot-like environment for the entire installed system. In other words, it allows for virtualization of an Opensolaris environment (and variants of Linux), without the performance hit that is generally associated with virtualization. This article gives a practical introduction into using Devzones. Read more on this exclusive OSNews article…

The devzone homepage: http://devzone.sf.net

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OSNews has been reporting on the Debian/Ubuntu/GNU/Opensolaris hybrid for several years. But for those of you who’ve never looked more closely at this interesting OS, a Nexenta developer has laid out some of its more noteworthy features and advantages.

Read the whole article on osnews.com.

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