OpenSolaris Indiana Released

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!'"

Comments

Hey! It's Debian!

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Without all that free crap.

But will it ship with....

[greenguy]

...a hat and bullwhip?

Indiana?

[Anonymous Coward]

From their website:

[...] go download OpenSolaris 2008.05 now [...]

I'd rather use the ISO-style YYYY-MM version name than weird codenames that only geeks can remember.

Re:Still not sold

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're looking for an easily maintainable desktop platform for web browsing, chat and stealing music, use Ubuntu. Solaris isn't like Linux; no one is going to start ranting at you or calling you an M$ shill if you don't run it on everything from your server to your blender.

Re:zfs

[eudaemon]

LOL, that's because Sun views Linux as a stepping stone to Solaris, me boyo.

No reason to give away the toys to the "hobbyists." :-)

Finally...

[silvrstar]

The first OS fully coded in Java!

Re:Finally...

[Anonymous Coward]

With boot times measured in milliweeks?

Re:Still not sold

[MrMr]

Well the only special thing I could find on sun.com is that thanks to ZFS I can now hook up
$59,889,696,578,085,169,569,553,930,907,991,205,216.26
  worth of harddisks to my desktop instead of the puny $3,246,626,956,972,881,084.41 I can spend on a 64-bit filesystem.

Re:Still not sold

[a_nonamiss]

ZFS doesnt offer me anything as im not managing servers
Dtrace doesnt offer me anything as im not a developer
SMF doesnt offer me anything i cant do with startup
IPS doesnt seam any better than deb or rpm

Is there any reason to switch? Well, for one, Solaris (and a few other OSes) support a new key just to the left of the "enter" key called the "apostrophe" key. ;)

Powered by Unixware 7.x!

[tushar]

Thanks SCOSource. Without Unixware 7.x, this release would not have been possible. The previous releases based on Sys V were really crappy.

Re:Want to smash a harddrive like this guy

[NotBornYesterday]

I want a job like that.

Someones gotta do it...

[Vectronic]

http://xkcd.com/37/

Re:Still not sold

[zsau]

You misuse the semicolon. A semicolon is not used in the same contexts as a colon. Instead, it is used to join two sentences (which would otherwise be complete), or to separate items in a list when the use of a comma would be ambiguous. Therefore:

"John was ready already; Anna made him wait."

"They offered lasagne; hamburgers, chips and salad; tacos, enchilladas and burritos; or fried frogs legs."

In no circumstance can you write "As a proud LDD touting, LWN gazing, MSc wielding geek; the Solaris kernel is a heck of a lot better coded..." without looking like a semiliterate try-hard. In general, the best advice for using a semicolon is "don't, unless you know you're sure".

As a self-confessed geek, you should know the importance of correct punctuation. It's not just helpful to compilers.

Re:Still not sold

[Fred_A]

I would really not write off Solaris, it's far from dead Customers : Bring out your dead OSs !
Solaris : I aint'ed dead yet
Linux : Yes you are
Solaris : I'm feeling better !
Linux : You'll be stone dead in a moment