StormOS Hail Beta – A very stormy experience

“On paper, StormOS is an excellent technological concept: it is
based on Nexenta, which itself is based on Solaris, and packaged
with Ubuntu user-land and package management system. In theory, you
get Ubuntu-like behavior on top of a UNIX kernel. Sounds like a
healthy marriage.

” But can it really be the magic blending of the super-advanced
ZFS filesystem, the advanced Solaris dual-architecture and the
simplest package manager? Can it compare with Linux seamless live
CD experience and hardware detection? What about the default choice
of the Xfce desktop? How does it fare in the overall scheme of
things?”

Complete
Story