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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There are two ways to configure a network in OpenSolaris, one is nwamd and the other is using the graphical network tool once nwamd is killed. To get networking to work with nwamd enabled, you have to modify /etc/resolv.conf so that it has the correct DNS servers listed. In my installation on a Pentium IV rig, the DNS servers were wrong and the /etc/nsswitch.conf file was not modified to use DNS and files. Edit /etc/resolv.conf and add the right DNS servers (if they are wrong) and /etc/nsswitch.conf, make sure the hosts entry reads hosts files dns. Once the is done, you should be able to access the Internet.