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First Look At OpenSolaris 2008 05

Posted on May 08, 2008 at 10:10 PM by Ryan de Laplante · Filed under Solaris

OpenSolaris was released a few days ago and I took it for a test drive after work. I've been meaning to write about it but work has been keeping me very busy lately. Before I go into details, I'll summarize what Sun is doing with OpenSolaris. They are creating a distribution targeted for desktop use (at least for now) that will have the latest and greatest software, released twice per year. Servers will still use the old Solaris, who's release cycle is 3+ years. The new distribution has a completely rewritten installer and boots into a working desktop off of a Live CD (like Ubuntu). The old package management system has been enhanced or replaced by Image Packaging System (IPS) which is very much like Debian's apt, but is tightly integrated with ZFS features such as snapshots. IPS can also be used to install packages on other OS's such as Windows.

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