A Visual Preview of Oracle Solaris 11 Express

[Atolstoy]

I don't see any Oracle's contribution here. Everything is from Sun, Oracle has just re-branded it.

[FunkyRider]

Piece of crap OS

Do no evil, stay away from Oracle.

[crazycheese]

Good review!

But, whats the point of this distribution today?

Run on Oracle hardware, using Oracle license within Oracle company?

I think it will not make to top ten on distro watch. Very possibly not even top100.

[le grand fuzzy]

Solaris 11 is still using GRUB 0.97 and not the newer GRUB2 now being used by most Linux distributions.

Slackware is still on LILO, and a lot of signifcant distributions still default to GRUB such as Arch, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, openSUSE, and PCLinuxOS. The biggest movement to GRUB2 is by Ubuntu derivatives.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: A Visual Preview of Oracle Solaris 11 Express

Earlier today there was the unexpected surprise of Oracle releasing Solaris 11 Express. There wasn't any public betas or preview releases of Oracle Solaris 11 Express and the last time we got to look at anything new from the OpenSolaris code-base was months ago before Oracle decided to dismantle that once promising open-source Sun project. In the hours following the release of Oracle Solaris 11 Express we tried it out on a few different test systems. Here is a brief, visual tour of Oracle Solaris 11 Express for those interested.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=15454