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Open solaris

  • 11-11-2009 06:12PM
    #1
    somuj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 952 ✭✭✭


    Anyone know if open solaris is any good.


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  • #2
    elix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭elix


    Hey,
    yeah ive used opensolaris (this years and last years) i got the CDs shipped from Sun which saved on the downloading.
    It was a mixed reaction. OpenSolaris doesn't seem to support a great range of hardware like linux does. I had problems with Intel HD audio in one install and graphics in another.
    The memory management is somewhat different aswell. It seems to preallocate a bulk of memory beforehand so if you have anything memory intensive it will sometimes throw a Out of Memory error.
    Its great but its not ready is my thinking...


  • #3
    Tillotson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭Tillotson


    But you do get ZFS which would be awesome for a nas / fileserver


  • #4
    elix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭elix


    true. ZFS is awesome even at user level (easy snapshot backups... Mac OS X time machine style).
    I only played arround with it for a few days and its incomparable atm to other popular unix/linux filesystems.
    the upcomming BtrFS 'Butter FS' is ment to be the Next Big Thing, brining ZFS's feature set to linux. Can be enabled on Fedora but i forgot to do so at installer boot time.


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