[geeks] FYI - OpenSolaris 2008.05 released

[Phil Stracchino]

Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 06:22:11PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> It's being "shipped" as a Live CD, and it installs after starting up on
>> the PC - I'm interested in the ZFS root filesystem...
> 
> Unfortunately x86-only.
> 
> I really wish they had chosen a different name - "OpenSolaris" was really
> the name for the Solaris open-source effort, and using that as the straight
> name for a single OpenSolaris-based distribution (even if it's Sun's
> official one) is just going to lead to confusion.
> 
> Bill

I haven't used it yet.  Is it better than the old Solaris x86?  Can one 
install it with a non-Gnome desktop?  I have a new-to-me dual-Xeon main 
fileserver (with 3.6TB of disk) to bring up, but, sorry'n'allthat, 
unless Linux's nfsd has improved a heck of a lot since the last time I 
tried to use it, I want Solaris on it.


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