Recently I've downloaded OpenSolaris 2008.5 LiveCD and decided to give it a try, so I've created a new virtual machine using VirtualBox and mounted the iso.
In a little while, the LiveCD Gnome desktop was ready and everything seemed to work just fine, so I clicked install. It was a fairly simple progress, no different than the many GNU LiveCD distros.
Now the question some might ask why OpenSolaris when GNU/Linux exists, I myself not expecting much difference in the overall experience from the more popular Gnome based GNU distros. Though I am interested in Solaris technologies and experience how much of a breakthrough it is, admittedly trying out an OS on a virtual machine is never the true way, any performance and stability advantages OpenSolaris is supposed to have over GNU/Linux will go by unnoticeable.
So I've finally decided that by the end of next week, I'll switch to OpenSolaris, after all a lot (all?) of the familiar GNU tools and programs are available for OpenSolaris, in addition to all the added technology, so why not?
You've Changed My Life
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