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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Time Machine the Solaris way
by unoengborg on Wed 3rd Dec 2008 19:35 UTC
unoengborg
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2005-07-06

It's called Time Slider. It looks great, and is an excelent use of ZFS snapshot functionality:

See:
http://java.dzone.com/news/killer-feature-opensolaris-200


See also a presetation of OpenSolaris 10/11 at:
http://webcast-west.sun.com/interactive/09B12437/index.html