OpenSolaris 2008.11 – Year of the Laptop?

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."

Comments

The year OpenSolaris becomes a viable OS laptops

[spaceturtle]

Kind of like the Year of the Desktop for Linux.

Re:"Server" vs "Desktop" OS

[houghi]

You are comparing OS to software. e.g. Linux is the OS. So is Linx a desktop or a server OS? That depends on the software you run on it.

So there is server software and desktop software and not so much server OS and desktop OS. e.g. I run openSUSE. Without telling what it does you have no idea wether it is a server OS or a desktop OS. (I do both and am aware of the existence of SLE). Many people run Debian. Is that server or desktop?

So even though there is different software, the difference between server OS and desktop OS is, at least with Linux, non-existing from an OS point of view.

Re:Year of Plan9 on the laptop?

[Informative]

Looking forward to that!