Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Fri 9th Oct 2009 22:45 UTC
"Sun Microsystems announced the Solaris 10 10/09 Operating System. The Solaris 10 OS has been extended with new performance and power efficiency enhancements, more streamlined management of system installations, updates and fixes, new updates for Solaris ZFS and advancements to further leverage the functionality of the latest SPARC and x86 based systems. Solaris 10 10/09 provides new features, fixes and hardware support in an easy-to-install manner, preserving full compatibility with over 11,000 third-party products and customer applications, including Oracle database and application software."
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RE[2]: Debian GNU/kSolaris?
by kaiwai on Sat 10th Oct 2009 11:44
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OpenSolaris has much of GNU userland. And also Solaris 10 userland. You just have to set your path.
But there are things missing from the default install of OpenSolaris that stops one from being able to download and compile applications; worse still the fact that Sun still include GCC 3.4 with OpenSolaris. Come on guys, get with the programme - I expect at least 4.4.x to be included already! Almost as bad as Xorg on Solaris with mountains of legacy crap still being kept around in OpenSolaris.
RE[2]: Debian GNU/kSolaris?
by danieldk on Sat 10th Oct 2009 13:56
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Member since:2005-11-18
OpenSolaris has much of GNU userland. And also Solaris 10 userland. You just have to set your path.
That's great, but it misses many scientific packages, I like APT far more than IPS, and I like the Debian way of handling things better. What's wrong with having the familiar Debian environment with a Solaris kernel? And if you like that environment, why switch to something very different? I have no interest in OpenSolaris, but having the OpenSolaris kernel on Debian would be nice for e.g. DTrace.
Mix and match!
Edited 2009-10-10 13:57 UTC
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Since everybody seems to like their kernel, but dislike their userland, maybe it is time for Debian GNU/kSolaris as well? Yes, I know Nexenta, but it would be nicer to see such a thing in a stable project such as Debian.