Development Release: Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Alpha 1

Anil Gulecha has announced the availability of the first alpha release of Nexenta Core Platform 3.0, a free and open-source operating system combining the OpenSolaris kernel with GNU application userland: "On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform (NCP) 3.0 alpha 1. This is the first release towards NCP 3.0. The main changes over NCP2 include: move from OpenSolaris build 104 to 124. From this release of NCP, all sunw* packages are natively built on Nexenta. The complete sources are available in the repository, along with Sun Studio 12 and other tools to roll your own kernel. Moving to the latest bits provides Nexenta users with the latest OpenSolaris features, including better storage and networking functionality with ZFS enhancements and the integration of Crossbow." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information. Download (MD5): nexenta-core_3.0-alpha1_x86.iso.zip (473MB).