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I've never been a Solaris fan (used it in school, and it's running one one of my old Ultra2s), but I really do love zfs. Every week it scans all my drives to e
by tsuraan 17y ago
I've never been a Solaris fan (used it in school, and it's running one one of my old Ultra2s), but I really do love zfs. Every week it scans all my drives to ensure my data's really still there, and my file server sends me email when things go wrong (both from smartd and cron). If Solaris dies it will be a sad loss, but if zfs dies with it, it would really be horrible.
To be honest, I'm hopeing for some lgpl/bsd release of the OpenSolaris code so that all the fun bits can be fully integrated into BSD/Linux/Darwin. Solaris's driver support is too sparse for it to really be a good general purpose OS, but it has a few great functions that would do a lot to improve more generally useful operating systems.
- rbanffy 17y ago> I've never been a Solaris fan (used it in school, and it's running one one of my old Ultra2s), but I really do love zfs That's somewhat like my relationship with Debian and Ubuntu. I like the Gnome desktop and the rest of Linux, but what I definitively love is APT. I could move to a flavour of BSD or start using OpenSolaris as my netbook's OS, as long as it had APT.
- tsuraan 17y agoFor FreeBSD, there's Debian GNU/kFreeBSD (http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/), and for Solaris there's nexenta (http://nexenta.org http://nexenta.org). I'm guessing Solaris won't have useful drivers for your netbook, but FreeBSD might. It's always fun to play, anyhow.