Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th May 2008 17:12 UTC, submitted by Dale Smoker
OpenSolaris 2008.5, the new distribution based on the OpenSolaris operating system, has been released into the wild. This release follows the conventions set by many of the popular Linux distributions, such as being based on a single live CD with installer, but also adds a load of OpenSolaris-specific features such as ZFS, DTrace, Containers, and a new package management system, IPS. OpenSolaris 2008.5 is the fruit of Project Indiana.
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Doing a whole system update via web is pretty nice. pkg image-update creates a clone of your current ZFS root and updates that. Whether the update fails or you actually want to continue working as if nothing's happening, both is no problem. Reboot and the updated ZFS root is active.
This is called boot environments and can also be managed manually using beadm. Personally, I've set up the system as I expect it to be after a reinstall and customization, then cloned a BE from it. If something fubars, I can either boot that or better, create another clone from it and preserve the original.
From the management standpoint, it's pure joy.