OpenSolaris 2008.05 Gives A New Face To Solaris

[tomm3h]

I didn't read the article carefully enough, does it answer the question asked on first page. I want to use OpenSolaris over a distribution that ships with do I really gain anything as a user by choosing , especially considering the licensing differences between Sun's offering. Sun is trying to make this into a commercial product right. I feel like GNU/Linux does everything OpenSolaris does already

You haven't even read the thread. Including my original reply at the top of this page..

[lockin]

I didn't read the article carefully enough, does it answer the question asked on first page. I want to use OpenSolaris over a distribution that ships with do I really gain anything as a user by choosing , especially considering the licensing differences between Sun's offering. Sun is trying to make this into a commercial product right. I feel like GNU/Linux does everything OpenSolaris does already

[d2kx]

https://www.opensolaris.org

It's here!

[tomm3h]

Maybe I didn't read the article carefully enough, but does it answer the question asked on the first page: Why would I want to use OpenSolaris over a distribution that ships with the GNU/Linux kernel?

Do I really gain anything as a user by choosing OpenSolaris, especially considering the licensing differences between Sun's offering and the GPL stuff that is out there. Sun is trying to make this into a commercial product right? Is that why they're reinventing the wheel? I feel like GNU/Linux does everything OpenSolaris does already, so why bother?

In one word: ZFS. It's magical.

And in another, DTrace. Though I'm not sure if DTrace is available on GNU/Linux (disclaimer: my knowledge is mostly hardware-orientated, rather than programming-orientated.)

[voltaic]

Maybe I didn't read the article carefully enough, but does it answer the question asked on the first page: Why would I want to use OpenSolaris over a distribution that ships with the GNU/Linux kernel?

Do I really gain anything as a user by choosing OpenSolaris, especially considering the licensing differences between Sun's offering and the GPL stuff that is out there. Sun is trying to make this into a commercial product right? Is that why they're reinventing the wheel? I feel like GNU/Linux does everything OpenSolaris does already, so why bother?

[Tomservo]

Way to fail to mention the new boot environments, which are the base of upcoming Snap Upgrade. This is one of the bigger things in this release.

[mjjzf]

Beautiful

It is really very beautiful. I have downloaded it and look forward to testing it (okay, playing with it).

[alanc]

While OpenOffice isn't included in the LiveCD, it is available from the package repository that went live a few hours after the CD release:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thre...start=0#228889

[d2kx]

It was a very interesting read... I am looking forward to set up an OpenSolaris 2008.05 system once it's officially released.

How much packages are done by Sun and how much by the community/users? Is it a rolling-release distribution, so you only have to update, or will 2008.11 be a new release with a new repository (like Ubuntu)?

[NeoBrain]

Guess I finally have to admit it's really good phoronix is Linux AND Solaris, rather than just Linux ;-)