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OpenSolaris Indiana Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the strangers-tempting-you-with-candy dept.

Lally Singh writes "The Linux-friendly OpenSolaris Indiana has been released! A new, modern package manager and all the goodies of Solaris: ZFS, DTrace, SMF, and Xen on a LiveCD that was designed for Linux users. 'Why use the OpenSolaris OS you ask? It's pretty simple, you'll find it full of unique features like the new Image Packaging System (IPS), ZFS as the default filesystem, DTrace enabled packages for extreme observability and performance tuning, and many many more. We think you'll be quite happy to came by to take a look!'"

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  1. yawn by nguy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    goodies of Solaris: ZFS, DTrace, SMF, and Xen on a LiveCD that was designed for Linux users

    In short, a small subset of the functionality I get with Ubuntu, and much less hardware compatibility.

  2. Too many exclamations. by Kingrames · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So who wrote that summary?
    Richard Simmons, or the Oxy Clean guy?

    new tag: toomanyexclamations.

    seriously, it's a real turn off.

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  3. Re:Indiana... by jalefkowit · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Considering this is from the people who brought you Java, naming it after a dog might not be particularly inappropriate ;-)

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  4. Re:cute by pak9rabid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Thank you Mr. Wizard. Didn't you have a show on Nickelodeon back in the 80s or something?