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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. Re:Still not sold by gardyloo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm tempted to tinker with ZFS just for its snapshotting abilities. You don't have to run a server to find that useful.

  2. Indiana... by Stele · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We named the dog Indiana.

  3. Re:Still not sold by QX-Mat · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm missing g's and e's :(

    As a proud LDD touting, LWN gazing, MSc wielding geek; the Solaris kernel is a heck of a lot better coded, structured and organised than the Linux kernel. But alas, it lacks the many new features that have truly driven linux over the last decade.

    Naturally my opinions lie with the ease of code readability and ease of initial development - these are not the same as a lkml hardened pro

  4. Re:Who cares? by njcoder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I assert that it's too little, too late. If Solaris had been freed in the early part of the century, it might have made some headway against Linux. As it is, it'll be stripped of anything useful and portable and will be as irrelevant as HP/UX or OpenVMS for all but locked-in legacy users. This is an idiotic statement and I can't believe anyone modded you up. The source for OpenSolaris has been available for years. When will the stripping start? Where is ZFS for Linux? Where is DTrace, Zones, or any of the other cool new stuff?

    Those are just some of the big items that get mentioned. Solaris' resource management and auditing tools are very impressive and I haven't seen anything comparable in linux that can give as much control for as little overhead.
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  5. Re:Hey! It's Debian! by njcoder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Crap. gnome?! WTF is wrong with people? Sun put a lot of time and money into GNOME when they were working on JDS. Most notably in the accessibility features of GNOME.

    GNOME is also the default for most mainstream linux distributions that Sun would want to position OpenSolaris against. RHEL, SuSE, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora.

    You should be able to compile KDE, or you can get a precompiled package on blastwave.org.
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