Well, I downloaded the free solaris 5/8 and was able to get a very small installation without the kitchen sink however it to is not very flexible compared to other nix* distros. One of the biggest reasons I have decided to play with solaris is because zfs looks interesting but during my install of free solaris above there is no option to choose the filesystem during install. From some web research it appears you have to do a normal install then create another partition with zfs and then copy over the original root to the new zfs one..modify some other files for boot etc... My objective was to play around with solaris and all the new toys especially zfs and clustering and maybe a desktop but with xfce. Even if I turn off X, cde or whatever...i still do not want code installed that is useless to my objective such as building a storage server ...I sure do not need X, gnome and all that other bull on a server. It appears that opensolaris is sun's Ubuntu. We really need more pow er over making choices during the install so I can taylor it to my needs such as choosing the filesystem/s, apps that are installed etc.
What is the differences between free solaris 5/8 and opensolaris? If one wants to start playing with all the new software such as mentioned above which release do i need to be focusing on? I am looking forward to learning zfs, dtrace, clustering and solaris OS so thanks in advance to sun for making this possible. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
