Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th May 2008 16:28 UTC
Last week, on my country's Liberation Day, Sun released OpenSolaris 2008.05, the much awaited first official fruit of Project Indiana. It delivers many of OpenSolaris' major features, such as DTrace, ZFS, containers, and more, in a Linux distribution-like package. The goal is to allow more people to experience Solaris. A few reviews have since hit the web.
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Member since:2005-07-24
They wanted something in OpenSolaris that works most of the time automagically without user intervention. That's NWAM. The problem is, the UI side's not done yet.
As a long time Linux fan... I understand. They'll get there. Solaris paved the server highway for us. Maybe we can return the favor on the desktop highway.
Member since:2005-07-08
Actually it does work, but it depends on DHCP which I do not use. So, OpenSolaris tries to come up with a configuration that will work using what it finds in the initial network probe. It found my router just fine and assigned an appropriate IP address for my network, it is just that the DNS servers were for hr.cox.net, not east.cox.net.
My soultion was to modify the resolv.conf and nsswitch.conf so I could get a working configuration, which I know does work with Solaris/Solaris Express and now OpenSolaris.
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2005-07-24
Why not just fix it so it works as reasonably expected?