Submitted by OpenSolaris 2008.11 has been released. In addition to improvements in ZFS, DTrace, IPS (the new OpenSolaris package manager) and the other OpenSolaris specialties, it also ships with a host of other OSS goodies: Gnome 2.24, Firefox 3, CherryPy, MySQL, DTrace for Ruby and many more. This new release targets developers and desktop users as well as traditional server roles. Download the live cd and give it a spin. Release notes here.
also comes with SongBird music player. over all OpenSolaris is making great! progress. I love how ZFS is maturing and the direction OpenSolaris is going. great work guys, keep it up!
For new features go directly to
http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/features/whats-new/200811/
I just downloaded and installed it. Adobe Flash Player is not there. Could somebody please tell me how to install Flash Player?
I tried to play the xvid movie. It says “The playback of this movie requires the following decoders which are not installed:
AC-3 (ATSC A/52) decoder
XVID MPEG-4 decoder.
I tried to play a DVD. It says “The playback of this movie requires a DVD source plugin which is not installed”.
Could someone please help me resolve these?
Thanks and regards
adobe.com
Doesn’t boot on my Lenovo R61i.
Boots on AMD64/A8V Deluxe but network adapter and sound doesn’t work. Mouse is really slow during I/O operations. It seems to use Vesa driver as default (Radeon 9250).
Despite these problems OpenSolaris looks ok and I’m going to install it.
Edited 2008-12-03 18:56 UTC
Have you tried setting your disk controller from AHCI mode to Legacy/IDE emulation mode? Not sure if yours gives you the option, but it’s worth a shot. You wouldn’t get Native Command Queuing or Hot Swap, but it still works.
My system crashes while the kernel is loading on my Gigabyte 780G board until I force it in either 32-bit mode, or disable AHCI SATA. I’m actually running my fileserver off that board right now, running snv101a (just a build prior to 2008.11).
Doesn’t work with Samsung x20 /w ATI x600
Works on my Desktop with Nvidia but:
– SiS on board sound is not recognized.
– I cannot add extra respositories which are described on the opensolaris page
– In Mozilla I cannot open directly the flash package. Instead I have to save it and open it afterwards.
– The GUI for appliying static IP always freezes –> so back to terminal
Just the first impression in 10 minutes.
Hope 2009.04 will be more polished.
cheerZ
When I tried 2008.5 on my desktop box back in May, it didn’t want to boot with any USB devices plugged in. If you have any plugged in, you might try without. I hope that suggestion doesn’t offend anyone.
http://webcast-west.sun.com/interactive/09B12437/index.html a prety good webcast for new features. Time slider seems impressive.
Edited 2008-12-03 19:32 UTC
It’s called Time Slider. It looks great, and is an excelent use of ZFS snapshot functionality:
See:
http://java.dzone.com/news/killer-feature-opensolaris-200
See also a presetation of OpenSolaris 10/11 at:
http://webcast-west.sun.com/interactive/09B12437/index.html
This is the first version that I could get to boot on VirtualBox for Mac. Now I get to see what it is all about.
It looks cool and has some nice features, so I’ll probably give it a try soon. Time Slider looked cool and useful, and including songbird was a great idea. I hope it works nicely on my machine.
P.S. Why were people modding down perfectly fine comment. If it isn’t working on somebody’s hardware, help them out instead. Be decent and mod them up back to 2 points (I brought them up from 0 to 1).
Now they even offer to send free CDs à la Ubuntu too.. 😉
OpenSolaris Free CD Order Form:
https://oscd.sun.com/
As to OpenSolaris 2008.11, I think the future of Solaris looks quite good based on the impressions (and likely better than some commercial Linux distributors may have), and despite there still being some problems to overcome. They have their long time expertise and support to offer to demanding customers, plus many high level professional features integrated into their OS etc.
Edited 2008-12-04 00:55 UTC
While I am delighted about the new OpenSolaris release, and will likely be trying it out this weekend, let’s be careful with the quips about its commercial Linux competitors. A two year history of RHT vs JAVA vs the NASDAQ to help set the stage:
http://tinyurl.com/54t7y9
Edited 2008-12-04 01:00 UTC
Yea, ok, maybe I was a bit unclear. I wasn’t referring to something like Redhat that is certainly doing very well. But there are many smaller commercial Linux distributions too, some of them already struggling, and some already gone out of business, and I was referring to them.
People are also too quick to count Solaris as a thing of the past simply if it may not have run on their desktop hardware and software well enough so far. Solaris has a long history especially in the server field, and lots of developer and other resources behind it. Also desktops are a new thing for Solaris. I think Solaris may still be here when some of the not so succesfull commercial Linux distrutions may have gone belly up.
That’s not new… at all…
I have some older nevada disk lying around somewhere and i got them sent freely too.
Ah, yeah, I had forgotten that they had done that before too. Anyway, it is interesting to see them following the marketing idea of sending free CDs – like what has already been succesfully done by Canonical in marketing Ubuntu – and interesting to see if they succeed in getting more OpenSolaris users with that idea or not.
Edited 2008-12-04 12:39 UTC
Free MP3 drivers. Just register and download.
http://www.fluendo.com/
Solaris sound drivers for different chipset:
http://www.opensound.com/oss.html
Media players, VLC player, etc:
http://lifewithsolaris.jp/
Did anyone else take a look at what the OpenSolaris devs are doing with Project Boomer?
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2008/318/inception-…
It looks like Sun is taking the Open Sound System and making some serious and very much welcome improvements.
This will be great when OpenSolaris gets this subsystem in place. It should put it on more equal footing with BSD and Linux.
I wonder if they will have a Boomer v2 that would allow for support of professional-level audio equipment and projects. I understand why they would only want to go for the basics at this point. It seems like they are on the right track. Do you have any idea when this will become part of OpenSolaris? I’m assuming it won’t make it in before 2009.11 at the earliest.
Been waiting for this one. Going to be putting it on my laptop!
I read that SUN was laying off a percentage of its workforce, I wonder what type of impact this will have.
I hope this does not put brakes on their development of software.