Solaris 10 and ZFS

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Solaris 10 and ZFS

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My friend works for Sun and he was raving on at me how good Solaris 10 is and how unbelievable the ZFS file system is.

I've never heard anything about Solaris, and never seen it in action at all. I can't find any short reviews about it online or any decent videos of the interface on YouTube so I'm wondering if any of you have had any experience with it and wondering if it's worth installing it and giving it a try.

What's so good about ZFS? I just read a little bit about it, how it's got virtually infiniate data capacity?!

I'm assuming you can run any Linux apps on it and it's quite similar to Ubuntu. Am I correct?

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Solaris only comes with the standard "X Windows" interface iirc, perhaps not even that much. It's an Industry/Commercial/Business/Enterprise/Whateveryouwouldliketocallit aimed OS, not a Home OS so they don't bother with the fancy stuff. I've not got any experience with ZFS, but I do hear it's pretty tasty.
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I saw this note from Slashdot about an hour ago regarding a limited time offer of free Solaris 10 discs: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0 ... 9&from=rss
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I think Solaris 10 is different, ie. more aimed at everyday users than older versions. I've read a couple more reviews since that post and it seems JDS is installed as the default UI but GNOME/KDE can be installed. JDS seems very much like Windows.

Were all the older versions of Solaris open source? Seems this one is, but I don't know the difference between Solaris and OpenSolaris yet...? I thought an OS had to be open source if it was built from unix because that's open source too...?

EDIT | Thanks feyd, that's awesome! I've ordered one :) That was alot quicker than registering on the Sun website and downloading what must be a 3.2-4gb file (you need to burn the image to a DVD or 5 CD's!).
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Solaris went open source after version 8 iirc.
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jayshields wrote:EDIT | Thanks feyd, that's awesome! I've ordered one :) That was alot quicker than registering on the Sun website and downloading what must be a 3.2-4gb file (you need to burn the image to a DVD or 5 CD's!).
Hey, you're welcome. :)
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