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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I like some features of Solaris .. but the whole package leaves a lot to be desired. I think trying to position Solaris as a linux wannabe with a few cool features ( Dtrace is nice, ZFS is blingy although it uses Vistaesques amounts of RAM ( like 0,5 GiB ) ) and like 1% of the drivers is not wise.
People are well aware of the possiblity of vendor lock-ins and OpenSolaris just seems a bit like the first free fix. Once you are hooked it will be hard to switch .. this kind of fragmentation does not help anybody.