OpenSolaris, opensource-centric distribution of Solaris operating system, originally distributed by Sun, now purchased by Oracle will in my personal opinion fail by the long-term. Why? OpenSolaris is free to install, distribute and share. But, the fallowing fact is more important – it’s security updates are not. They can only be bought separately by the support [...]
OpenSolaris 2008.11 is the latest release of the OpenSolaris Operating System, a powerful and complete operating environment for users, developers and deployers. Open Storage ZFS (zettabyte file system), is designed from the ground up to meet the emerging needs of a general-purpose file system spanning the desktop to the data center. Anyone who has ever [...]
OpenSolaris is pretty simple, you’ll find it full of unique features like the new Image Packaging System (IPS), ZFS as the default filesystem, DTrace enabled packages for extreme observability and performance tuning, and many many more. It comes on Live CD installation media with simple installation software. URL: http://www.opensolaris.com
