How Is OpenSolaris Going?

[Mel Thompson]

Anyone out there having good luck with OpenSolaris CD install?

I got the disks from the Oracle World convention in SF, and also got some free in the mail. Then went to the Indiana Project too, etc. But so far, only the live CD seems to work, and all the install attempts have failed.

Plus the install is the slowest I've seen, so that it really took me a long time to find out the thing was failing to install. If my whole project won't work, I like to find out earlier in the evening. I hate to get an hour into a two-hour install, only to find I can't install.

Well, then I'm reading all these articles saying that OpenSolaris is not as open as it should be. And there appears to be problems with the Indiana Project. (They were working on a Power PC Mac version. I really wanted to see that, but then the new announcements at their site stopped in 2006 with no new news since then.)

Any thoughts on all this? I always like the concept of Sun Sparc 64s and all that. I'm kind of rooting for them to come through, but so far it all looks a bit doubtful.

Mel C. Thompson, The Eternal Newbie.

[cayalee]

lol about the install. it did get dubbed "slowlaris" for a reason.
yeah i was quite interested in it too, i think techiemoe might have a rant up about it on his website too. but basically i found it slow, and it didnt do anything for me that linux didnt already do better. i hear its got good tools if you're a server man but thats not really my thing.
the licensing thing is a bit weird cos as i remember it its under a ccdl (creative commons development licence iirc) which means anyone can contribute code to it but i think it means people cant take from it without permission, so its kind of leechy as it can use linux/bsd code but not give much back.
have fun with it tho.

[drl]

Hi.

I installed it in a VMware VM on a Xeon server. It's been running just fine for over 2 weeks since the last boot.

Slow install, slow desktop, old tools, but seems very stable. I use it mostly with a remote ssh login.

I have not done any installing of patches or new packages because I don't know the package management system well enough so far ... cheers, drl