Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th May 2008 16:28 UTC
Last week, on my country's Liberation Day, Sun released OpenSolaris 2008.05, the much awaited first official fruit of Project Indiana. It delivers many of OpenSolaris' major features, such as DTrace, ZFS, containers, and more, in a Linux distribution-like package. The goal is to allow more people to experience Solaris. A few reviews have since hit the web.
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I had a similar experience. Nice install, no networking. There was some oddly-named service running, like "automagic internetworking wizard," which I had to track down and kill before the network configuration panel was allowed to function. Once I got it on my local network, though, it still couldn't find the Internet.
With Nexenta apparently backing away from having any graphical functionality, OpenSolaris will be the OS I'm watching for my eventual home server replacement, especially once ZFS supports arbitrarily removing drives from a zpool. Hobbling together leftover storage without risking the data will be a killer feature.
One of the best things about the OpenSolaris liveCD environment is that it runs a hardware support app, so you can see at a glance what will work in the OS. I tried it in all my systems, including my MacBook. There was always something that didn't work. Solaris needs more drivers and an intuitive networking system, but otherwise I'm impressed.