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OpenSolaris 2008.11 – Year of the Laptop?

Posted by timothy on from the appealing dept.

Ahmed Kamal writes "Is Linux getting too old for you? Are you interested to see what other systems such as OpenSolaris have to offer? OpenSolaris has some great features, such as ZFS and dtrace, which make it a great server OS — but how do you think it will fare on a laptop? Let's take an initial look at the most recent OpenSolaris 2008.11 pre-release on recentish laptop hardware."

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  1. Re:Self-helpdesking BSD by Shag · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hear there's a company that sells laptops with a BSD OS and decent support... named after some kind of fruit or something.

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  2. Year of Plan9 on the laptop? by lokpest · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, I wonder what year will be "Year of Plan9 on the laptop"

  3. Re:Why? by tehcyder · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sure! Running ZFS on a single drive sounds cool to the other people working at the help desk.

    Plus chicks really dig it.

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