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Originally Posted by RedShirt
It appears based on some of my reading around that Solaris 10 isn't actually released yet even though Solaris 10 1/06 and Solaris Express 6/06 are out.
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Beta of Solaris 10 have been made available since september 2004.
Solaris 10 has been released in january 2005.
Solaris 10 update 1 has been released in january 2006.
Solaris 10 update 2 will be in the next days.
Solaris Express is a generic name applying to the next release of Solaris. It used to be Solaris 10, but since winter 2004, it applies to "Solaris 11, a.k.a. Nevada".
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Is Solaris 10 really unreleased at this point,
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No.
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and how stable are the Express releases?
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Rock solid.
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Is it something I can use as my main OS on my second system?
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Sure, although the licence requires you to update after 6 month.
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On a similar vein, OpenSolaris seems to have plenty of various releases as well, and I would like to try Solaris of some flavor.
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OpenSolaris is not a full O/S distribution, it is the source code kernel and utilities distribution.
Sun's OpenSolaris distribution is Solaris Express, there are other, independant distros:
- SchilliX, from Jeorg Schilling (mkisofs and cdrecord author)
- Belenix, an Indian live-cd
- Nexenta, a.k.a. GnuSolaris (Ubuntu Dapper Drake on top of Open Solaris kernel)
- Polaris, first distribution for PPC
- marTux, first distribution for sparc
- Portaris, unofficial/unreleased yet Gentoo's Portage project.
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What benefits drawbacks do I have with OpenSolaris compared to Express or base Solaris 10?
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Solaris Express is more cutting edge, has more features, but has not the same level of support Solaris 10 (or 9 or 8) have.
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ZFS seems pretty impressive, has anyone been using for awhile that can comment to its stability and performance as a desktop(read NOT SERVER) FS?
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I've been using it on my laptop since it's available in november 2005 (Solaris Express build27a), and very happy with it.
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I see that some versions of the Express and OpenSolaris come with X
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All of them are doing it, hopefully.
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this would be appreciated by me, I would like to try Solaris as is, but I would also like to be able to use modular XOrg(6.9 or 7.0) with it. Is this possible?
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The modular Xorg 6.9 is the standard X11 server for Solaris running on x86 H/W.
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And as a continuation, how about running other things like XGL, KDE, or Gnome?
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No XGL I'm aware of, although 3D GL acceleration is supported on nVidia H/W.
You can easily install KDE from various sources. Some distros have it preinstalled.
Gnome is the default graphic environment (JDS).