[geeks] FYI - OpenSolaris 2008.05 released

[Phil Stracchino]

Mark wrote:
> I'd have thunk they'd use the Sun NFS daemon. seeing as Sun have a 
> defined standard for NFS compatibility. I agree, the Linux version of 
> NFSd is a complete pile of horse manure. I tend to use NetBSD or OS X 
> for serving off NFS, because they are easier to handle (in OS X's case 
> you do need Leopard though).
> 
> I'd have thunk also if they are going down the Linux-like route it ought 
> to be semi-straight-forward to compile KDE for OpenSolaris maybe? Or 
> XFCE, or whatever you fancy? I dunno, I guess the community support is a 
> touch limited atm.

Well, actually, being as it's to be a server, I'll be getting to it via 
ssh anyway.  I just didn't want to burn cycles pointlessly running a 
Gnome that I'm never even going to log into.

Though I suppose in that situation there shouldn't be much more than gdm 
running....


> TBH if you a re using it on a Server I'd go for the industry strength 
> Solaris 10 05/08 strain. OpenSolaris 05/08 is really designed as a 
> Linux-esque desktop/enthusiast OS. Jonathan Schwartz says the strategy 
> was to get in on the 'bottom-upwards' trend of techies using Linux at 
> home and learning how useful it was so deploying it at $work, or 
> something like that, I guess he's hoping that people will do the same 
> with OpenSolaris to Solaris 10.
> 
> I'm grabbing it to try on my Java Workstation, but the download keeps 
> stalling on me. Most annoying!

Got the OpenSolaris download last night with no problems.  Haven't 
pulled down the latest Solaris 10 yet.  I'll sheepishly, but honestly, 
admit that I really wasn't looking forward to the 9-to-10 learning curve 
of "OK, so how exactly does all this stuff that they changed work now...?"


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