Unrelated to the topic at hand, but I've been happy with SmartOS. It's firmly and solely an OSS server OS, it's easy to use, many of the uglier Solaris legacy b

Unrelated to the topic at hand, but I've been happy with SmartOS. It's firmly and solely an OSS server OS, it's easy to use, many of the uglier Solaris legacy bits have been sanded off, and it has a decent package system (pkgsrc). My earlier experiences with Solaris and OpenSolaris were mixed. SmartOS has been uniformly positive. Perhaps give it a try, although be aware that it (like everything illumos) is picky about the hardware.