What's new in OpenSolaris 2008.11?
Glynn Foster created a very nice "New and noteworthy" page for OpenSolaris 2008.11:
http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/features/whats-new/200811
Btw in case you are wondering how is the release shaping up, it's coming along - RC2 is ready now and final release is coming soon (obviously things are a bit slowed down right now due to the thanksgiving holiday in the US).
If you aren't to careful you might actual publish a complete and useful Desktop environment. :-)
Posted by Alan Pae on November 27, 2008 at 07:01 PM GMT #
LOL.
Posted by Roman Strobl on November 27, 2008 at 07:35 PM GMT #
This "whats new" document is really good. Reading through that 2008.11 looks like a really impressive release, especially considering how young the distro is.
Posted by andrewk8 on November 27, 2008 at 10:01 PM GMT #
The list is pretty good and impressive, however there is one thing definitely missing which is being hurting me ever since touching OpenSolaris for the first time:
[...]
SUNWbluefish Bluefish, a powerful editor for experienced web
[...]
SUNWdcraw dcraw - Decoding RAW digital photos in Linux
[...]
When looking at the package version here or the "pkg search" output in OpenSolaris, in most situations I just see they're "versions for OS 2008.05/11". That's of pretty little importance to me - I would want to know which version of dcraw source code, which sources of gimp, ... are packaged there? Is there an easy way figuring this out using IPS tooling?
Posted by Kristian on November 28, 2008 at 07:44 AM GMT #
what is missing from this release is SUN's download manager. I find it very curious. I like it a lot, I use it to download .iso images.
Posted by Vasileios Anagnostopoulos on November 28, 2008 at 12:28 PM GMT #
Roman, thanks a lot for the link to great Glynn's page! I very like it.
Is it a chance to release OpenSolaris 2008.11 in November?
Posted by ptecza on November 28, 2008 at 04:04 PM GMT #
I've just noticed that Glynn probably forgot about Time Slider. It's a cool new feature and should be added there.
Posted by ptecza on November 28, 2008 at 04:09 PM GMT #
It probably won't happen but it would be really, really cool to see Sun push out a commercial DVD Movie player for either Solaris or OpenSolaris.
alan
Posted by Alan Pae on November 28, 2008 at 06:21 PM GMT #
Ptecza, timeslider is already mentioned on the page.
Alan, Sun can't distribute right now a movie player due to licensing issues, however it is easy to install a DVD player from here:
http://lifewithsolaris.jp/modules/packages/index.php?content_id=3
Posted by Roman Strobl on November 28, 2008 at 06:41 PM GMT #
Unfortunately the release was postponed due to thankgsiving, it will be ready in early December. However it will still be called 2008.11 :)
Posted by Roman Strobl on November 28, 2008 at 06:42 PM GMT #
Come on Roman. Can't Sun pay ALL of the fees and then open source it just for us! :-)
Posted by Alan Pae on November 28, 2008 at 08:33 PM GMT #
Have you seen Sun's last financial results? :) Anyway we are discussing ways to provide access to multimedia. Stay tuned.
Posted by Roman Strobl on November 28, 2008 at 10:11 PM GMT #
I found opensolaris 2008.11 works ok..
But to never bother with FAT32 drives because its painfully slow. Which means easily moving files between different OS's that have no network connectivity becomes a big issue.
Is there any chance of speeding up or replacing PCFS driver with something that works faster.
Copying between zfs and a usb 2.0 1tb hdd shouldn't run at 1mb/sec more like the 25-35mb/sec that i can get under linux.
Because of the above reason I had to switch back to linux.
Posted by brad on November 30, 2008 at 12:21 AM GMT #
Roman, thank you very much for your replies!
Did Glynn complete the page or did I overlook Time Slider there?
Can't American people postpone their holiday? Only a few days, please. A lot of OpenSolaris users over the world have been waiting for 2008.11 release for 6 months.. ;D
Posted by ptecza on December 01, 2008 at 03:21 PM GMT #
The new WiFi environment is pure bliss!
alan
Posted by Alan Pae on December 03, 2008 at 12:47 AM GMT #
OS0811 is not ready! Solaris 10 08.10 runs fine in my computer, but OS0811 hangs and after that cannot be reboot. In additions doesn't recognize my sound card, doesn't have VOIP, etc. etc.
However is slowly improving. Now, the windows scroll smoothly, the mouse is more precise, etc.
Maybe at the end of 2009 we can think change to OpenSolaris.
Posted by Pitty on December 04, 2008 at 04:46 AM GMT #