I have worked with Solaris 10, various Solaris Express Community Edition Releases (Nevada, which for a while came out every two weeks) as well as OpenSolaris (indiana?, which came out every several months.)
The appeal big appeal of OpenSolaris was that it provided some of the functionality of Solaris 10 + added new features that will hopefully get into Solaris 10. XVM support was pretty good- I can run an OpenSolaris machine with several paravirtualized guests which is really nice on a machine that doesn't support hardware virtualization. ZFS is a key technology that is just not available in Linux. And there is some key software for us that was available for Solaris but not linux. But I am now confused about the discussion of forks. If Sun no longer provides source code to the Open Solaris community, doesn't this mean some core functionality (e.g. CIFS, kernel updates, ZFS updates) are now frozen? At this particular point, OpenSolaris's major advantage over Solaris 10 is XVM support. But since any new server I buy these days (and even desktops and laptops) comes with hardware virtualization support, XVM presents less value. Additionally, with out Sun participation, OpenSolaris wouldn't provide any preview into what might come out with Solaris. So, if I am looking at installing a new server a year from now, what would an fork of OpenSolaris get me that Solaris 10/11 or Linux wouldn't? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
