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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Member since:2008-06-24
Have you tried setting your disk controller from AHCI mode to Legacy/IDE emulation mode? Not sure if yours gives you the option, but it's worth a shot. You wouldn't get Native Command Queuing or Hot Swap, but it still works.
My system crashes while the kernel is loading on my Gigabyte 780G board until I force it in either 32-bit mode, or disable AHCI SATA. I'm actually running my fileserver off that board right now, running snv101a (just a build prior to 2008.11).
Member since:2005-07-06
Doesn't work with Samsung x20 /w ATI x600 
Works on my Desktop with Nvidia but:
- SiS on board sound is not recognized.
- I cannot add extra respositories which are described on the opensolaris page
- In Mozilla I cannot open directly the flash package. Instead I have to save it and open it afterwards.
- The GUI for appliying static IP always freezes --> so back to terminal
Just the first impression in 10 minutes.
Hope 2009.04 will be more polished.
cheerZ
Member since:2005-07-24
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2007-01-08
Doesn't boot on my Lenovo R61i.
Boots on AMD64/A8V Deluxe but network adapter and sound doesn't work. Mouse is really slow during I/O operations. It seems to use Vesa driver as default (Radeon 9250).
Despite these problems OpenSolaris looks ok and I'm going to install it.
Edited 2008-12-03 18:56 UTC