Solaris Installation Notes -- Distributions
Thanks to OpenSolaris there are now multiple distributions to choose from:
- If you are OpenSolaris newbie it is not a bad idea to start with OpenSolaris Starter Kit.
- Choose Solaris 10 if you want to use the most stable Solaris release.
- Solaris Express, Community Edition is for people who want the latest Nevada builds.
- There is a new program -- Solaris Express, Developer Edition, which focuses on developers. This release installs also the developer tools -- Sun Studio.
- Nexenta is a distribution for people who like Debian packaging tools, Ubuntu look and feel and Solaris cutting edge features and stability. BeleniX is a great LiveCD distribution.
- Schillix was the first OpenSolaris distribution, which came out just three days after official OpenSolaris launch.
- MarTux is a distribution, which focuses on the Sparc platform.
- Singanix is a new distribution focusing on servers.
