Nexenta is the third operating system to be released based on the OpenSolaris code.

This edition is based on OpenSolaris, with all the extra bolt-on packages that many Linux users may be familiar with, like MySQL, Perl, PHP Abiword and the Gnome GUI.

Nexenta also includes the Debian package system, with some 2,300 packages available to install additional software and functionality.

Now Debian will ring bells - it's a well known Linux distribution base - but actually it's the Debian packaging system that is used within Nexenta to provide software installation and update functionality. Nexenta actually uses the packages included in the Ubuntu package repository as its base.