OpenSolaris vs. Linux, For Linux Users

An anonymous reader writes "With Sun busy being swallowed up by Oracle, should Linux geeks pay any interest to OpenSolaris? TuxRadar put together a guide to OpenSolaris's most interesting features from a Linux user's perspective, covering how to get started with ZFS and virtualisation alongside more consumer-friendly topics such as hardware and Flash support."

Re:OpenSolaris

[larry bagina]

how long did it take you to copy a 17 meg file from one folder to another?

Re:Nexenta

[NoYob]

First an alternative OS like Open Solaris and now a garage OS? What next, an Indie OS? The developers go around on tour and sell the CDs at the OS Concert?

Re:Nexenta

[Crimsonjade]

Emo OS - supports a wrist peripheral for easy cutting.

Re:Nexenta

[Anonymous Coward]

all the ease of apt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron [wikipedia.org]

Re:Where are the forks?

[legojenn]

I am waiting for Blackware, but don't want Batrick Bolkerding to over-extend himself.

Re:Its a Server OS...

[digitalunity]

Dunno, I've found plenty of Linux-compatible porn.

Just maybe...

you're doing it wrong.

Re:I really like OpenSolaris

[agnosticnixie]

I'm not particularly devoted to the GNU tools, but... sadist.

Re:Its a Server OS...

[wisty]

Why don't they just run flash in a virtualized Linux box if they want to run it in *BSD? Sure, it's a bit of a hack, but any OS that can't show a kitten playing guitar is not, in my opinion, feature complete.

Re:I really like OpenSolaris

[smash]

Heh. They may be simple and crude, but at least they work the unix way, and the command line switches aren't shit like "--fuck-me-this-is-a-lot-of-typing"

Re:I really like OpenSolaris

[agnosticnixie]

I often try -with-a-black-rooster-to-the-gods-of-GNU in desperation, it never works, but who knows, maybe somebody with my ridiculous sense of humor does exist on their team.

(complete aside I'm actually considering OpenSolaris heavily on the server and following what a friend told me re "learn Sun's tools even if you rip them out when you're doing the real job" - although I'm still going around esp. since I still think Linux with BSD or Plan 9 userland might be an interesting possibility to at least try - I know both have been done but never distributed, mostly for in-shop limited deployment use)

Re:That's the closest anyone has come so far

[agnosticnixie]

Thanks for the info (I'm all of 24yo and was almost a toddler when the current-gen *nix OS were born, so yeah) - but

Unix was conceived as an interactive environment for programming, and is sill the only OS worth using for a programmer

I appreciate your courage, you'd have been taken apart by the dotnet lovers in that other article (and maybe by those who still think Basic in any form is a programming language and not a "what not to do" guide)

Re:OpenSolaris

[fak3r]

how long did it take you to copy a 17 meg file from one folder to another?

this is one of my all time favorites, the fact that people below responded with timing makes it ever sweeter. I am in your debt.