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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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RE[4]: Networking

by sbergman27 on Thu 15th May 2008 19:25 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Networking"

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They wanted something in OpenSolaris that works most of the time automagically without user intervention. That's NWAM. The problem is, the UI side's not done yet.

As a long time Linux fan... I understand. They'll get there. Solaris paved the server highway for us. Maybe we can return the favor on the desktop highway.

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