{"id":621,"date":"2008-02-09T09:06:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T14:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2008\/02\/09\/distrowatch-reviews-the-current-state-"},"modified":"2008-02-09T09:06:58","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T14:06:58","slug":"distrowatch-reviews-the-current-state-of-opensolaris-on-the-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2008\/02\/09\/distrowatch-reviews-the-current-state-of-opensolaris-on-the-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"DistroWatch reviews the current state of OpenSolaris on the desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DistroWatch has a very <a href=\"http:\/\/distrowatch.com\/weekly.php?issue=20080204#feature\">good article summarizing<\/a> the state of running OpenSolaris on the desktop at the moment.  Personally, I&#8217;m interested in Solaris technology seeing more widespread usage although am not a gigantic follower at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>For me the most interesting part was their discussion on what is happening with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nexenta.org\">Nexenta<\/a>, a project to graft the power of the Debian\/Ubuntu userland on an OpenSolaris foundation.  To me this seemed like one of the more promising projects since the mental overhead of relearning a whole bunch of new commands drops by a large factor and I can focus on really grokking the parts that make Solaris unique and not get too involved in the other parts until I feel good and ready to dive in.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Nexenta has decided to step away from the desktop and focus on the server backend which I think is just dandy since most of the features that OpenSolaris touts are more appropriate for the server at the current moment.  (ZFS, Zones, Xen) and I think it&#8217;s worth getting these tools integrated in seamlessly without too much fuss.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, one of the annoying things that I had learned when trying to play with OpenSolaris is that some features that get a <a href=\"http:\/\/opensolaris.org\/os\/community\/xen\/announcements\/#2006-08-25_OpenSolaris_on_Xen_Update\">bit of press<\/a> require following bleeding edge of OpenSolaris which requires learning to keep track of basically <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trunk_(software)\">trunk<\/a> for a distribution.  (For example trying to play with Xen is something that requires <a href=\"http:\/\/opensolaris.org\/os\/community\/xen\/Bugfixes_Known_Issues\/\">more recent builds<\/a> of Open Solaris).  While there is something to be said for learning things from following trunk.  It can be a little frustrating when you also want your computer to actually do some work outside of sending bug reports and searching forums \/ mailing lists \/ blogs for &#8216;How do I get X working&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DistroWatch has a very good article summarizing the state of running OpenSolaris on the desktop at the moment. Personally, I&#8217;m interested in Solaris technology seeing more widespread usage although am not a gigantic follower at the moment. For me the most interesting part was their discussion on what is happening with Nexenta, a project to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1029,1099],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source","category-unix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}