“This DVD release includes all of the 0.5.1 Live CD and adds JDK 1.6, OpenOffice 2.1, Netbeans 5.5 with Visual Web Pack, C/C++ Pack, Profiler and Glassfish AppServer 9, all the OpenSolaris Developer and Administration docs available from the OpenSolaris Documentation Community, and Desktop shortcuts for all these.”
and i) gpl3 all that is opensolaris and ii) achieve hardware support comparable to that in Linux, things will get very very interesting.
SUN/BeleniX and perhaps PC-BSD really have the potential to challenge GNU/Linux distros in terms of bringing new technology in a nice package and attracting new players to the field.
For me, it is all about user space, functionality and freedom. Couldn’treally care less about what kernel I use as long as my hardware works 🙂
May all FOSS benefit and everyone win!
Can’t say I agree more. The stability of the Solaris kernel has been proven time and again in mission critical setups.
Now if I could only get the same hardware support than with Linux I’d be a happy camper.
I agree.
Now, if we can get some help from the community to make it more accessible to newbies and non-geeks, the Solaris adoption will improve drastically.
The stability of the Solaris kernel combined with some of the best technologies – zfs, dtrace.. killer OS.
Better hardware support and a comprehensive web-based graphical control panel, and Solaris will have world domination, IMHO.
plus a load of other stuff. The only thing really needed is either allot of time spent on ” rel=”nofollow”>http://www.webmin.com/
Some pointers as follows.
Open an terminal window in X and type the following at the prompt:
progreg
This will give you a gui interface to the list of installed packages. All you have to do is click on the name and read up on the the details.
smc
Again in a terminal window will give you the Solaris Management Console GUI, a handy utility for configuring your system.
The work well with Solaris but I have yet to test them with Belenix or NexentaOS.
By the way, if you want to recombine the two Belenix.iso files while in windows, do the following:
Open a command prompt (Start->Run->CMD does the trick for me.)
cd to the directory containing both iso.1 and iso.2
type the following in the command line
c:> copy \B belenix_dvd.iso.1 + belenix_dvd.iso.2 belenix_dvd.iso
This will combine both files into belenix_dvd.iso using binary mode enabling you to burn it to disk.
Edited 2007-02-06 23:00
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The correct syntax is
c:> copy /B belenix_dvd.iso.1 + belenix_dvd.iso.2 belenix_dvd.iso
Thanks, you are of course correct.
(Bloody typos!)