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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!'"

2 of 359 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Still not sold by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Then you don't really understand the file system. Seriously, I think this is the BEST reason to look at Solaris .. ZFS is amazing: snapshots; Z-RAID; Zetabyte file ssytem; prevention of bit rot ...

    They have also forcibly crashed it over a million time and it has never lost data even once. Try doing that with your home PC.

    And what ... you don't care about your photos, docs and music???

  2. Re:Still not sold by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They have also forcibly crashed it over a million time and it has never lost data even once.

    Sorry, I'm calling you on your B.S. Sun fanboy.

    ZFS is *not* ready for production.

    I'm a working Solaris admin. I can point to several ZFS raidz arrays that have had to be recovered from tape due to ZFS bugs losing & corrupting data.

    This is clearly a case of ZFS marketing outstripping ZFS reality. They have implemented all the cool features, but have dropped the ball on robustness.

    Do a sunsolve search for ZFS panics or ZFS corruption. There are a half-dozen major bugs that are still un-resolved, and won't be until Sol10u6 - if then. [u5 was just released in the last week or so]

    rho