Star Sun Debuts OpenSolaris 2008.05
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th May 2008 17:12 UTC, submitted by Dale Smoker
Sun Solaris, OpenSolaris OpenSolaris 2008.5, the new distribution based on the OpenSolaris operating system, has been released into the wild. This release follows the conventions set by many of the popular Linux distributions, such as being based on a single live CD with installer, but also adds a load of OpenSolaris-specific features such as ZFS, DTrace, Containers, and a new package management system, IPS. OpenSolaris 2008.5 is the fruit of Project Indiana.
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RE[7]: Live CD is a nice touch
by Arun on Tue 6th May 2008 02:54 UTC in reply to "RE[6]: Live CD is a nice touch"
Arun
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2005-07-07

I noticed that the last thing that happened before the freeze was that the light on the connected USB drive blinked once. I turned the drive off and OpenSolaris was able to boot all the way up to a rather nice looking desktop. It does not like the Marvell Gigabit adapter built into the motherboard, but it has a nice gui to tell me about which drivers are installed and which are not. It brought my radeon r200 up at 1680x1050 which is optimal. The gui for the new package manager looks friendly enough, but it's hard to tell much without network access. It's been a long day, and that's all I'm up to for tonight. But perhaps tomorrow I will round up a NIC it likes and explore some more.


Good debugging!

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