Sun's Check Tool: Does Your Hardware Work?
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| Sun's Check Tool is a bootable CD that lets the user know
| whether the hardware they have installed is likely to work
| with Solaris or not. If a third-party driver is needed for
| a particular piece of hardware, the Sun Check Tool will
| even provide a link to the driver needed.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=747&num=1
Taking OpenSolaris for a spin
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| One reason, as former Debian co-founder and now Sun Chief Operating
| Platforms Officer Ian Murdock explained, is that OpenSolaris
| doesn't come as a packaged operating system like Linux does.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8593942703.html
Related:
Is Solaris truly open source?
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| ...if you dig into the idea of open source, there still is an
| ideological connotation to its definition, for better or worse.
| It's the idea of community development. Source that is freely
| available is valuable because it allows others to modify and
| improve that software. No one gets paid for their effort, but
| everyone enjoys the fruits of their collective labors. It's not
| that Linus Torvalds is promoting socialism with his Linux kernel,
| but he is not thinking about returns on investment either. He just
| wants a good operating system, just as the Apache developers just
| want rock-solid Web server software.
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http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/44436.html
I tried to dirty my hands on OpenSolaris Belenix 0.6
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| This reminds me of my initial days with Linux - about 8-10 years ago -
| when we were forced to configure each and every aspect of Linux
| configuration to simply work out things. Today, most Linux distribution
| do not require any advanced tweaking during their initial installation
| - most things work out-of-the-box and distributions like Xandros have
| simple, 4 click install options.
|
| It looks like OpenSolaris needs to travel a real long way, and journey
| has just begun.
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http://raviratlami1.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-tried-to-dirty-my-hands-on.html
Checking out Nexenta GNU/OpenSolaris
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| I guess the appeal of Nexenta is... hmmm... I'm not really sure. It's
| running GNOME. It's brown. Looks an awful lot like Ubuntu. It's not
| using all GNU tools. Heck, it's not even using BSD tools. I mean,
| really, "ps ax" works on my mac and on my linux boxen. Does it work
| here? Nope. Gives me usage. The man page lies too.
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http://linsec.ca/blog/index.php?/archives/129-Checking-out-Nexenta-GNUOpenSolaris.html
Solaris can never be Linux
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| Things haven't changed much at Sun. When Sun launched its
| OpenSolaris project in 2005 it used the Common Development and
| Distribution Licence - which is incompatible withb the GPL - and
| some system code was not released.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12116/1090/
What I Learned From Ubuntu
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| So, to sum it all up: I learned that distros can successfully deal
| with issues that OpenSolaris and Sun are facing, like how to provide
| the many third-party packages that users want, and how to keep them
| current. What we need to do now is figure out how to make it work
| for OpenSolaris, without sacrificing the stability that attracted
| many Solaris users in the first place.
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http://blogs.sun.com/kupfer/entry/what_i_learned_from_ubuntu
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