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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RE: First impression
by sbergman27 on Thu 4th Dec 2008 08:14 UTC in reply to "First impression"
sbergman27
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2005-07-24

Doesn't boot on my Lenovo R61i.

When I tried 2008.5 on my desktop box back in May, it didn't want to boot with any USB devices plugged in. If you have any plugged in, you might try without. I hope that suggestion doesn't offend anyone.

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