OpenSolaris Out In Beta - Here is the ISO

Yesterday we all learnt that Sun’s secret “Project India” would get the name openSolaris. Right now the ISO files are finally out on public servers ready to be snatched, I am currently downloading them to see what Sun’s so called “Linux killer” has to offer.

OpenSolaris is Sun’s response to Ubuntu 7.10, openSUSE 10.3 and Mandriva 2008.
The distribution will according to some statements, have everything but the Linux kernel which Sun has switched to their own. Well won’t this become a little problematic with having their own kernel instead of Linux? Just take drivers like an example. The Linux kernel contains a big amount of drivers, does Sun’s have these drivers? If not then openSolaris will only work with a small amount of hardware. Presumable the most common ones, as soon as you have some strange or not so popular hardware this will mean trouble.

The desktop used in OpenSolaris is Gnome 2.20, the same as in pretty much every other distribution.

ISO-files can be found at Sun via this link.

Source: linuxworld.idg.se

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