24 May 2008

OpenSolaris 2008.05 is released

An exciting new distribution from Sun has been released.
It seems like a very Free Software friendly version of Solaris. It has lots of great features such as :
  • ZFS
  • DTrace
  • Xen
  • IPS (Package Management System)
  • LiveCD

I tried the LiveCD on my R61i laptop and it worked well. I'm going to run OpenSolaris in 64-bit mode as my main desktop environment at work, DTrace and ZFS sound extremly useful.

OpenSolaris.com
OSNews: OpenSolaris shows promise
Slashdot: OpenSolaris released