Checking in with OpenSolaris
Solaris went open just as I was leaving full time sysadmin work for full time programmer work. I haven’t checked in on the project over the past few years (2 really…is that “few years?”), and was pretty surprised to see that Open Solaris is scheduled to become “Solaris 11″.
TextDrive is migrating all their FreeBSD servers to Solaris 11, which scared me when I first heard it. I remember the days of trying to get a basic LAMP’ish stack running on Solaris 7. It was tremendously frustrating back then. Everything was optimized for Linux, nothing compiled out of the box. It was a real pain.
It’s good to see Solaris still has some popular momentum, especially under the command of guys like Textdrive’s Jason Hoffman who has clearly been toying with it a lot.
Edited to add this link to a nice analysis, http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/03/28/has-solaris-turned-the-corner/
