Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 3rd Dec 2008 18:22 UTC, submitted by MechaShiva
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:2005-07-08
let's be careful with the quips about its commercial Linux competitors.
Yea, ok, maybe I was a bit unclear. I wasn't referring to something like Redhat that is certainly doing very well. But there are many smaller commercial Linux distributions too, some of them already struggling, and some already gone out of business, and I was referring to them.
People are also too quick to count Solaris as a thing of the past simply if it may not have run on their desktop hardware and software well enough so far. Solaris has a long history especially in the server field, and lots of developer and other resources behind it. Also desktops are a new thing for Solaris. I think Solaris may still be here when some of the not so succesfull commercial Linux distrutions may have gone belly up.
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2005-07-24
While I am delighted about the new OpenSolaris release, and will likely be trying it out this weekend, let's be careful with the quips about its commercial Linux competitors. A two year history of RHT vs JAVA vs the NASDAQ to help set the stage:
http://tinyurl.com/54t7y9
Edited 2008-12-04 01:00 UTC