Mac OS X, Spring 2007, OpenSolaris - *now*
It's great that Mac OS X will have DTrace built into Xcode, and Time Machine, a GUI that can show nifty views of your files going into the past. If you want to start exploring these technologies now then you should have a look at OpenSolaris.
We've got some excellent visualisation tools that use DTrace, and with the aid of the excellent ZFS, we've also got the ability for users to take automatic snapshots of their files, and even a prototype of a GUI to view snapshots.
As I've said before, OpenSolaris is ready for your desktop now - you don't have to wait for Mac OS X to see how these exciting new technologies could be applied in your day to day computer usage. That said, I really look forward to Apple's participation in the OpenSolaris community - welcome aboard guys! :-)
Posted by Alex on August 08, 2006 at 02:24 PM IST #
Hey Alex, you probably want this post from Prabahar (though my brother has also been able to use Parallels to boot Solaris just fine). OpenSolaris is the core operating system that Sun open-sourced last year, and which we now base Solaris on. That said, Solaris isn't the only OpenSolaris-based distribution though, there's more here.
Posted by Tim Foster on August 08, 2006 at 02:44 PM IST #
Posted by Alex on August 08, 2006 at 03:28 PM IST #
Yep, sounds like it should all just work. Google yeilds a bit more information about triple-booting on intel macs, in particular this post from Paul seems to be what you're after. Feel free to drop me a mail if there's anything I can help with related to Solaris - I'm still running an old "17 G4 iMac, so I can't run actually run Boot Camp, or OpenSolaris (yet!) on that unfortunately!
Posted by Tim Foster on August 08, 2006 at 03:36 PM IST #
Posted by Alex on August 08, 2006 at 08:56 PM IST #