Perspectives

OpenSolaris 2009.06: Getting Better All The Time

Jason Perlow - June 2009

Solaris beats Linux on Memcached

Shanti's personal blog - May 21, 2009

Saint Paul College Customer Snapshot

May 2009

Saint Paul College's computer science department deployed a secure, open-source, distributed computing solution that uses Sun Ray thin clients with the Sun Secure Global Desktop Software. Students learn about open-source computing and the Java programming language on Sun servers that run the OpenSolaris Operating System. The department is also using Sun's Project Wonderland as part of an innovative immersive virtual reality teaching project.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Boise, Idaho Customer Snapshot

May 2009

A Sun Open Storage solution built on the OpenSolaris Operating System and two Sun Fire X4500 servers provided a virtual storage pool of 12 terabyte for applications running on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. In addition, a cluster of four Sun Fire X4150 servers supported 28 virtual servers running Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Server. Listen to the audio http://sun.edgeboss.net/download/sun/mp3/09d12484_00.mp3

Memcached Performance on Sun's Nehalem System

Shanti's personal blog - April 18, 2009

My first impression of OpenSolaris 2008.11

/dev/urandom - January 3, 2009

Trying out OpenSolaris within VMWare, the blogger found the installation quite straightforward. To him, OpenSolaris looked like any Linux distribution with gnome. After having a good time with OpenSolaris, he was certain that he would surely spend more time on it and recommended its use to others too.

OpenSolaris 2008.11

Niq's soapbox - December 31, 2008

The blogger liked OpenSolaris 2008.11 a lot, as it gave him a smoother and easier experience than 2008.05 and offered more up-to-date goodies than SXCE. He noted that the installation process was very smooth and easy, but points out couple of issues like lacking fdisk facility. The blogger was optimistic, however, and said that he would make a few adjustments and looked forward to migrating all of his work to the OpenSolaris platform if all went well.

My OpenSolaris story

Ryandelaplante.com - December 31, 2008

Ryan de Laplante had been keeping an eye on Solaris since 2005 when he just knew Solaris as "big iron - a rock solid OS that government and banks relied on." He adored functions such as the containers, resource manager and SMF. Ryan found OpenSolaris 2008.11 the best release yet and he is looking forward to the 2009.05 release.

OpenSolaris 2008.11

Raju Alluri's Personal Blog - December 27, 2008

Raju Alluri downloaded and installed 2008.11 using VMWare, and experimented with different networking options like Host and Bridged. Raju was pleased to see that everything worked clean and fine, though he mentioned that the full screen mode of VMware server console was the real workable mode for this installation.

OpenSolaris 2008.11 on the test machine

Kommando Linux - December 24, 2008

The blogger's OpenSolaris 2008.11 installation went without much trouble. He had concerns about the EULAs in the software and promised readers a full review of OpenSolaris soon.

OpenSolaris 2008.11

Matjaz Skraba - December 21, 2008

The blogger touted OpenSolaris 2008.11 as a powerful and complete operating environment for users, developers and deployers. He gave an overview of OpenSolaris's various features and concluded by saying that the new release of OpenSolaris 2008.11 brought the first few platforms to support suspend and resume to RAM -- a feature that would prove to be extremely convenient for mobile users and necessary for those conscious of energy consumption.

Moving to OpenSolaris

ReWinD Blog - December 19, 2008

Weldon Dodd decided to try OpenSolaris as the new 2008.11 version sported nifty features. After 30 minutes, Weldon got the ISO downloaded and was soon greeted by a desktop with Firefox and other features, all ready to go. He said he was extremely excited about using OpenSolaris as he had heard that there were a few people who had Firefly Media Server running on OpenSolaris. He concluded, "This is going to be great!"

OpenSolaris 2008.11 tested

Heise Open Source UK - December 17, 2008

Oliver Diedrich believed that with the release of the new version 2008.11 of OpenSolaris, Sun made further progress not only in terms of user friendliness but also in terms of integrating the special Solaris features into a modern desktop environment. After making the latest release of OpenSolaris undergo a series of intensive tests, Oliver concluded that OpenSolaris 2008.11 did meet the goal of offering Linux users a familiar work environment. He concluded, &qquot;It is now more suitable as an operating system for NAS filers, and for SAN storage."

What makes OpenSolaris interesting

David Stewart is a software engineering manager at Intel Corporation. David currently manages Team Open Solaris in the Software and Solutions Group. David's group charter is to ensure that Xeon is the best platform to run Open Solaris. Click here to find out why Intel is excited about working on OpenSolaris for Intel® Xeon® processor-based systems. Also, find out about the new features in OpenSolaris from David Stewart.

Sun ZFS Flash initiative: Paul Murphy talks about the coolest thing in ZFS

ZDNet - July 15, 2008

Sun ZFS breaks all the rules

Infoworld - June 7, 2007

InfoWorld posted a very positive review on Solaris ZFS highlighting key features and performance. The reviewer does a deep dive on the design of ZFS, and specifically praises the innovation of ZFS stating "it's not every day that the computer industry delivers the level of innovation found in Sun's ZFS. More and more advances in the science of IT are based on simply multiplying the status quo. ZFS breaks all the rules here, and it arrives in an amazingly well-thought-out and nicely implemented solution."

Welcome OpenSolaris

Software Libre y algo más - September 6, 2008

After experimenting with OpenSolaris in VirtualBox, the blogger decided to install OpenSolaris 2008.05 directly to his hard disk. The blogger listed some of his experiences while doing so.

OpenSolaris looks nice *wow*

Overwhelmingly Geek - September 5, 2008

Shaon Diwakar found OpenSolaris a marked improvement over the previous version he worked with. He was especially impressed with OpenSolaris' desktop UI. Shaon concluded, "Based on first impressions - as I install this, ITS PRETTY! *gasp* Even more so than the standard Ubuntu 8.04 desktop!"

OpenSolaris runs on IBM mainframe

IBM Outlines Benefits of Virtualization on System z and Endorses Sun's xVM Virtualization and Management Initiative

Student Zone

Shiv Prakash,Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, Nagpur, India, goes over the download and installation process (including a tip for those with network bandwidth issues), his take on the initial look and feel as well as his suggestions for the areas of work in near future.

OpenSolaris reviews and some tips and tricks: Ajay Kumar, the Sun Campus Ambassador at IIITM, Kerala, India

Andreas Nilsson from Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, installed OpenSolaris 2008.05 in two different hardware. See his reviews here.