OpenSolaris 2008.05 Released

From dorm room to boardroom. OpenSolaris has everything you need to take your brilliant idea, build a prototype, test it, deploy it, and run it on production servers -- out of a loft, or across your enterprise. And when your application goes viral, you won't have to throw hardware at the problem, or switch to a different OS. OpenSolaris is industrial strength and built to scale from the get go. The live CD makes it simple to boot to a fully functional desktop environment, including Firefox and Thunderbird. Try it without fear -- our instant rollback feature works like a giant undo button, so your system is always protected, and you'll never lose work. And, you can load OpenSolaris 2008.05 easily in a variety of virtualization technologies including the open source VirtualBox hypervisor.

OpenSolaris 2008.5, the new distribution based on the OpenSolaris operating system, has been released into the wild. This release follows the conventions set by many of the popular Linux distributions, such as being based on a single live CD with installer, but also adds a load of OpenSolaris-specific features such as ZFS, DTrace, Containers, and a new package management system, IPS. OpenSolaris 2008.5 is the fruit of Project Indiana.


When Sun started the process of open sourcing Solaris 10 about three years ago, it sufficed to have a website dedicated to programmers. OpenSolaris.org was the place where OpenSolaris was being built, and for a while, according to Dan Roberts, director of product management for Solaris and OpenSolaris at Sun, this worked out just fine. However, later on, people expected something else on OpenSolaris.org: a distribution. "They were looking for something that they could understand, that they could deploy, that they could use."


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Did you try it?

Hmm sounds interesting, I read some of the linked articles, but it seems it is more of an enthusiasts choice atm since some of the features are not yet as robust as Linux, and not yet quite as simple to use. However, I would say given another release or 2, this has amazing promise.

freakin download link is not "static", everytime my download manager resumes, the link goes "dead".... anyone got a torrent or better link?

No! I have Solaris 10.. Ordered the CD will try it for sure

Just installed it in VMware - nice theme (nimbus - osx aqua-ish), icons, wallpaper etc... got gnome 2.20.2, surprisingly no openoffice (maybe no space) which is sun's own project

But dont know how the hardware support and availability of software packages will be...

Maybe I can try installing it in an office PC, dont want to risk my own

only thing better in open solaris is the file system.

in all else it is put to shame by ubuntu.

Post on Ars: First look: OpenSolaris 2008.05 a work in progress

well,I have downloaded it from torrent
now,with 384MB of RAM,opensolaris in livecd mode refuses to complete Gnome panel :x !freaking!it needs minimum 512MB as per the site!
well,even I got a 7300GT with 256MB RAM.but it doesnt help.

One good thing,is it carried all drivers for my h/w.
there is a utility u can download from sun's site,that can report whether solaris will run or not
it needs jre though!