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Open Solaris Derivative Available

Posted by Zonk on from the zonkx-is-coming-next dept.

tezbobobo writes "Well, Open Solaris has only been available a matter of days and already there are new projects available. SchilliX is an OpenSolaris-based live CD and distribution that is intended to help people discover OpenSolaris. When installed on a hard drive, it also allows developers to develop and compile code in a pure OpenSolaris environment. More details are available on the author's blog."

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  1. Torrents by RickPartin · · Score: 4, Informative

    In case the Open Solaris site goes down or you just don't feel like clicking two links on the page

    Torrents!

  2. author is well known by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    You might know the author from cdrecord. He has a rather low opinion of the ide-scsi/ide-cd component of the kernel in general and Linus in particular. Good to see him where he is happy.

    And solaris has a kick-ass kernel, no doubt about that. Debian/SunOS is the ultimate Unix environment in my mind. One day it will become reality, or so I hope...

  3. Re:whats the difference ? by FidelCatsro · · Score: 4, Informative

    They are two different OS and run on different kernels for a start(note that linux is just a kernel anyway)
    Linux has a broader compatibility with x86 hardware
    Solaris has by default a better permissions system
    Linux is under the GNU GPL and thus a little freer than OpenSolaris
    Solaris has far better NFS support , not that you would notice unless your running with allot of clients
    Solaris is certified POSIX complient and linux is just pretty much POSIX compliant (mainly due to the cost of being declared posix compliant , and the rate the linux kernel evolves)
    Those are some of many many many differences.

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