Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 6th May 2008 21:48 UTC, submitted by irbis
Yesterday, the OpenSolaris team released OpenSolaris 2008.05, the fruit of Project Indiana. The first review we found was published over at Blogbeebe, which is overall fairly positive. At the same time, Practical Technology believes that "OpenSolaris has finally been released just in time to die".
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There's zero evidence that Novell has any intention of trying to take legal action to impede publication of Solaris source code. After all, source availability for Solaris is in no way new.
In addition, since I'm not a kernel hacker, I'm not affected in any way if Solaris beats Linux or vice versa, since either way I get a full free Posix-compatible system that runs on cheap commodity hardware and has Gnome, KDE, or whatever else you want on top for desktops, and runs whatever server apps you want as well. Even Linus will tell you that all of the exciting work is happening in userland these days.
It might even be optimal to run both in your home or small office network: maybe you prefer the Linux hardware support for your desktops and laptops, but want to try out a ZFS file server.