Monday May 12, 2008
Monday May 12, 2008 | Several
reviews have popped up since we announced OpenSolaris 2008.5 last week.
Here are two quick ones from ZDNet and Phoronix. |
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Jason Perlow of ZDNet posted a very positive review of the OpenSolaris 2008.05 release. He categorized the operating system as Ubuntu for grown-ups; further stating, "[OpenSolaris] shows great promise and enormous potential as an enterprise-class UNIX desktop and server with Ubuntu-like flavor."
Jason goes on to share a historical perspective, then turns his attention to the product directly stating, "I'm very impressed with the OpenSolaris 2008.05 release" and "end-users for the most part should feel right at home with OpenSolaris." In particular, Jason enjoyed the ease of installation, refreshing configuration applets and included applications. Beneath the UI and end-user tools, Jason praised the enterprise-proven high-performance found in the Solaris 10 kernel.
Phoronix review
Michael Larabel posted a review of OpenSolaris 2008.5 stating he is pleased with the evolution of OpenSolaris from beta to 2008.05. "Our initial experience with this new OpenSolaris release is vastly better than what we had encountered less than three months ago when last looking at Project Indiana." At the top of his list is the addition of the graphical package manager for IPS.
Michael is also happy with the work done on the underpinnings of the OS, "this test release of OpenSolaris 2008.05 has also offered the best hardware support from our testing and corrects some issues we previously encountered with Solaris/OpenSolaris. Overall, OpenSolaris 2008.05 provides a new user experience and gives a new face to Solaris."
Great reviews, more to come soon.
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A slightly less flattering one here, although they do say it has plenty of potential. The suggestion to find ways to emphasise the practical use of ZFS, zones, dtrace etc to more average uses makes sense, e.g. look at Apples interfaces for time machine and dtrace.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080512-first-look-opensolaris-2008-05-a-work-in-progress.html
For me the biggest thing that will hold it back for a while is the lack of packages and the difficulty in building open source packages. Putting resources into sorting out spec files extra and perhaps netbsd pkgsrc for opensolaris 2008.05 would be good moves, both ways to potentially leverage open source to grow the Opensolaris IPS gene pool. They both have issues even compared to SXDE/SXCE.
Posted by rod on May 14, 2008 at 08:41 PM EDT #
Are you proud of OpenSolaris. I think it is crap. I heard ther is no gcc by default and the package repo only contain 1000 repo. If it is true, so, OpenSolaris hundred time worse than any of Linux distro especially Debian and Ubuntu.
Posted by Moojave Socialits @ The Lits on May 19, 2008 at 08:10 AM EDT #