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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!'"

8 of 359 comments (clear)

  1. Still not sold by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 0, Troll

    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?

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  2. modd0 up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    centralized In ratio of 5 tXo notorious OpenBSD

  3. Unix is dead by symbolset · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ransom Love killed it with hubris.

    And Sun bought the right to open "Open Solaris" from a company that didn't own that right. Install this at your own risk.

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  4. cute by pak9rabid · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think it's cute how Unix vendors are scrambling to provide features that have been standard features in Linux nearly since it's inception. As the saying goes, too little too late.

  5. Re:Indiana... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ..and it's a girl's name anyway.

  6. Re:yawn by nguy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Show me dtrace or zfs on ubuntu.

    Ubuntu ships with extensive tracing facilities, volume management, RAID, and journaled file systems.

    DTrace and ZFS just happen to be monolithic implementations of such facilities, which I consider worse.

  7. Re:Indiana... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Linux distro to OpenSolaris...

    "You were named after a dog?"

  8. Re:yawn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sweet! If Debian can integrate ZFS, DTrace and SMF why can't any other Linux distros

    Why would anyone want to integrate ZFS, DTrace, or SMF? Those are merely Sun's implementations of stuff other systems have had for years.