[LUAU] OpenSolaris Screenshots/FC4

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

While OpenSolaris, which came out last week, allows you to build a 
Solaris distro from source (though you have to include a few "encumbered 
binaries"), it is much more practical at the present stage to start with 
Sun's already built binary Solaris Express.  The current version of 
Solaris Express is based on Nevada 16 (a snapshot of "Solaris 11 beta").

IMNSHO, whether OpenSolaris will be successful or not depends to a very 
great extent on Sun's attitude--can Sun let go of OpenSolaris 
controlship as it does with OpenOffice?  This is a very difficult thing 
to do, and I do not sense that Sun is very honest about it.  Of course I 
can be wrong, and I hope I am.

Nevertheless, within a week of OpenSolaris's debut, there are already 
two very interesting developments.  One is a collection of screenshots:

http://www.hup.hu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9065

And the other is an OpenSolairs LiveCD:

http://schillix.berlios.de/

I will get back to this later.  But last week we also saw another very 
significant event: Fedora Core 4.  This is probably the best Linux 
distro (not just Fedora) that I have seen EVER.  It's not just the 
distro itself, but the entire community and the supporting 
infrastructure.  I am seeing Warren's signatures over the places.  
Fedora is getting matured--there is even a FC5 roadmap/wishlist being 
openly discussed.  This is exactly we want, something we can use (and 
preach) with confidence.

Anyway, both OpenSolaris and Fedora have their pros and cons, something 
like FedoLaris that combine their pros may be very interesting.  Wayne