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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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  2. Re:Why? by Curtman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    some Islamic states have no seperation of state and religon.

    If there was a state that really had separation of state and religion I would move there.