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finally open.. so to say

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/opensolaris.jsp

http://opensolaris.org/ (and this is pure exaggeration.. so to say)

I always love seeing code open source. Its just the thing that knowldge is power and who doesnt want power? I think when i get up today im going to have to download it and give it a test run. Thanks for the post and with links!

yes, i have heard a great deal about this in the past few weeks.

Two days ago I read the news and I think this is a great success to open source. I will not test it because there's no reason for me

Hmmm i think it's a good new with limits.

I summarize :

Good points for solaris :
- Unix maturity, very stable system
- Velocity (hmm may be it's subjective )
- DTRACE quality (http://opensolaris.org/os/community/dtrace/)
- Containers are very helpfull to manage allocated programs ressources
- Sun support

Bad points :
- Installation phase isn't better than a good GNU/Linux
- Material support very limited (example : this very common card -> SBLive)
- Choice of software purposed (may be it's subjective too )
- The global youth of this project & the commercial side of Sun which community still rejects

In conclusion, OpenSolaris is a good competitor, but not a "GNU/Linux killer", however there are good ideas in the system which it would be advisable to study closely.

I just saw Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris today, and I must say that I am very excited about them both. I think I'm going to have to repartition so that I can test out Solaris 10

Running Gentoo right now, but I am happy with anything Unix based. Solaris looks like a very powerful OS, especially for development.

phrackattack wrote:I just saw Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris today, and I must say that I am very excited about them both. I think I'm going to have to repartition so that I can test out Solaris 10

Running Gentoo right now, but I am happy with anything Unix based. Solaris looks like a very powerful OS, especially for development.

I've worked with Solaris 7/8/9 .. I haven't tried out Solaris 10 yet because currently been on IBM AIX .. but I'm still more of a sun person and the last time Scott McNealy came down for a seminar was the 1st time i saw Solaris 10 and not exactly alot of difference except more programs included ...

But as far as Solaris is concerned .. I find it fairly much simpler to use than others - for eg. the pkill command that's been introduced since Solaris 9 (or 8 ? can't rem ..) .. Anyway thats juzt my personal opinion ..

Ayukie wrote:for eg. the pkill command that's been introduced since Solaris 9 (or 8 ? can't rem ..) .. Anyway thats juzt my personal opinion ..

pkill / pgrep - same as pidof or kill `pidof process` been using those in bash for a very long time..