OpenSolaris 2008.05
The first official binary distribution based on OpenSolaris was released yesterday! It comes on a single LiveCD that lets you check out all the much talked about features before installing. Some of the highlights are the new IPS package manager, DTrace, Service Management Facility, XEN, and the new ZFS filesystem!
I have been looking forward to experimenting with Zones and ZFS (after being very disappointed with the current ZFS implementation on FreeBSD) more. I have downloaded the LiveCD and got ready for the painful Solaris installation. To my surprise the LiveCD booted to a very attractive GNOME desktop with a GTK2 installer comparable to desktop oriented Linux distribution. The installation was quick and painless, it completely blew me away. I highly recommend OpenSolaris to anybody interested in exploring ZFS!