A new update of Solaris 10 has been made available today. There are a lot of ZFS enhancements and the next-gen file system is now supported as an installable root file system. You can download it for x86 and SPARC here. Other than that there are new drivers, security enhacements, etc. Fore more information, check the what's new page.
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I also has a similar ZFS setup. 4 Samsung 500GB drives + Intel Q9450 + ATI4850. Before I got a quad core, I ran the same setup on a Intel Pentium 4 and 1GB RAM for over a year. Everything worked fine. It is FUD that ZFS requires more than 1GB RAM (SEGEDUNUM, anyone?)
The ATI4850 has a new solaris driver, that I posted on the opensolaris.org forum, "X-windows" part. You can download it from there. It works well in 2D (supporting up to 2560x1600 resolution I think), but no 3D functionality is included yet. Later when ATI releases the spec 3D will be included.
But, under Solaris I dont play 3D games, I just do work. When I want to use 3D functionality, i.e. games, I reboot into Windows XP. My work doesnt require 3D functionality, so I dont need 3D. I just need a good 2D driver, which is available now for the 4800 family.
Edited 2008-11-01 05:23 UTC
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2006-05-14
The only thing keeping me from using it as a desktop OS is ATI Driver support (Not suns fault, but a major key for desktop usages).
I AM currently use OpenSolaris for my homemade NAS/Media Server (using MediaTomb). 4x750GB Array. ZFS is a dream to work with. Growing a storage pool with a single command is pretty nice. It supports block level compression (which makes it fast, and efficient). I use the Nexenta Distribution.