Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 3rd Dec 2008 18:22 UTC, submitted by MechaShiva
Sun Solaris, OpenSolaris OpenSolaris 2008.11 has been released. In addition to improvements in ZFS, DTrace, IPS (the new OpenSolaris package manager) and the other OpenSolaris specialties, it also ships with a host of other OSS goodies: Gnome 2.24, Firefox 3, CherryPy, MySQL, DTrace for Ruby and many more. This new release targets developers and desktop users as well as traditional server roles. Download the live cd and give it a spin. Release notes here.
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First impression
by RJop on Wed 3rd Dec 2008 18:49 UTC
RJop
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2007-01-08

Doesn't boot on my Lenovo R61i.
Boots on AMD64/A8V Deluxe but network adapter and sound doesn't work. Mouse is really slow during I/O operations. It seems to use Vesa driver as default (Radeon 9250).

Despite these problems OpenSolaris looks ok and I'm going to install it.

Edited 2008-12-03 18:56 UTC