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OpenSolaris vs. Linux, For Linux Users

Posted by timothy on from the give-it-a-whirl dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With Sun busy being swallowed up by Oracle, should Linux geeks pay any interest to OpenSolaris? TuxRadar put together a guide to OpenSolaris's most interesting features from a Linux user's perspective, covering how to get started with ZFS and virtualisation alongside more consumer-friendly topics such as hardware and Flash support."

2 of 303 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Its a Server OS... by skyride · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow thats impressive....

    My OP post gets Modded +3 Insightful, and then my reply to someone who commented on it gets modded troll.

    Slashdot, well done, you never fail to amaze me.

  2. Re:Ironic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But if I have to run an application through Wine why not just run it natively in Windows or on Mac OS X and save the trouble of Wine? Why all the unneeded complexity?