Dibbler's Net

For the past few months I have started running a dedicated opensolaris desktop system on my desk at home. It has two monitors, one screen displays nagios network status while the other one does generic web browsing and some twit live watching. I had run into an issue with 2008.05 that it did not want to nicely upgrade to svn_95 due to some mbr boot changes. Now granted this is a development so I don’t expect anything to be perfect, however I am finding myself surprised by more features each day. I am used to the fact that Solaris is a great Server OS first and a desktop second (for most users) but this is starting to change for me. This evening I decided to move to svn_95 as part of the pre 2008_11 version. Wanting to avoid my mbr boot issue (which is documented I just didn’t read the readme first) I went and got the ISO for 2008_11 svn_95 and downloaded it to the solaris system. Upon download I put a blank DVD+R into the drive. First Opensolaris saw the blank disk and auto launched a burning utility, this is new and I must say a nice touch. This shows Sun’s move to more of a end user friendly desktop. Next I went to the ISO file and right clicked on it. From there it gave me a burn to disk option which I used. From there a small utility popped up and with one click the dvd was being burned. This was actually an easier process than burning an ISO on windows. Congratulations to the Opensolaris team for a job well done and an OS that is quickly becoming a viable end user option.

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