Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Fri 9th Oct 2009 22:45 UTC
Sun Solaris, OpenSolaris "Sun Microsystems announced the Solaris 10 10/09 Operating System. The Solaris 10 OS has been extended with new performance and power efficiency enhancements, more streamlined management of system installations, updates and fixes, new updates for Solaris ZFS and advancements to further leverage the functionality of the latest SPARC and x86 based systems. Solaris 10 10/09 provides new features, fixes and hardware support in an easy-to-install manner, preserving full compatibility with over 11,000 third-party products and customer applications, including Oracle database and application software."
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RE[2]: Debian GNU/kSolaris?
by danieldk on Sat 10th Oct 2009 13:56 UTC in reply to "RE: Debian GNU/kSolaris?"
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OpenSolaris has much of GNU userland. And also Solaris 10 userland. You just have to set your path.


That's great, but it misses many scientific packages, I like APT far more than IPS, and I like the Debian way of handling things better. What's wrong with having the familiar Debian environment with a Solaris kernel? And if you like that environment, why switch to something very different? I have no interest in OpenSolaris, but having the OpenSolaris kernel on Debian would be nice for e.g. DTrace.

Mix and match!

Edited 2009-10-10 13:57 UTC

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