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Intel has announced that the OpenSolaris variant of Unix is now better supported on its Atom processors. The Atom support is being positioned to bring the joys of x64 computing to netbooks and other low-power computing devices, and it offers some of the best performance/watt in processing these days. Sun Microsystems, which largely steers the OpenSolaris effort and will use the distro as the basis of the next generation of Solaris, wants to be among the greenest of IT vendors. It also wants to find a new niche for Solaris, as Linux has done superbly on netbooks this year.
Quoting:While Linux (of one sort or another) is the default platform for a lot of such devices these days, Solaris is well regarded, rock solid, and has the virtue of being a single distro (so long as you ignore some of the minor ones that have cropped up, such as MilaX, BeleniX, NexentaCP, and SchilliX).
The big difference on my hardware anyway is that MilaX and BeleniX actually boot and run. OpenSolaris, not so much. I haven't tried the latest build, but when I couldn't get the 2008.05 version to run on anything I owned, yet MilaX ran great and BeleniX ran, shall we say, acceptably, I knew OpenSolaris had quite a way to go.
Since then, I've acquired a 1995-era Sparcstation 20. I'll write about that in the next month.
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The big difference on my hardware anyway is that MilaX and BeleniX actually boot and run. OpenSolaris, not so much. I haven't tried the latest build, but when I couldn't get the 2008.05 version to run on anything I owned, yet MilaX ran great and BeleniX ran, shall we say, acceptably, I knew OpenSolaris had quite a way to go.
Since then, I've acquired a 1995-era Sparcstation 20. I'll write about that in the next month.