[wellylug] Trying Solaris

[Jonathan Harker]

Rob Giltrap wrote:
> I have played with Sol8, Sol 9 and Sol 10 but they were all a bit fiddly 
> for me to get going on my x86 kit relying on my limted linux skills. 
> However, that has all changed for me.
> 
> I have been playing with the Solaris 10 Update 1 (1/06) which was 
> officially released today (though I've been playing with pre-releases 
> for a couple of weeks) and it is a breeze.

If you don't know of it already, you should have a wee look at 
GnuSolaris, which is a GNU/Linux distro but with the OpenSolaris kernel 
instead of the Linux kernel. Basically it is GNU/OpenSolaris

http://gnusolaris.org/

And check out ZFS too -

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/

Cheers,
J

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Jonathan Harker