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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Only a moron will make a claim that Solaris does not have a community. If you look at how Solaris was developed in the past and compare to how it is developed today, you will be shocked at the differences. Just look at what Solaris is turning into today. Xorg is used for their Xwindow system. Gnome for their desktop environment... and it is no longer even heavily modified. And let's not forget Bash as their default shell. Just about everything in Solaris but the kernel is now being developed by the community. What does this do for Sun? It lets them focus on what is truly important while drastically driving down costs. It lets the kernel be the only thing differentiating it and Linux and IMHO, with DTrace, ZFS, etc., Sun is in a good spot for that comparison.