Kuldip Oberoi's Blog

Sun and the OpenSolaris community today announced the immediate, and unrestricted, availability of the latest version of the distro- OpenSolaris 2008.11. Previously, I used it as my alternative OS, either via VirtualBox or on a dedicated demo laptop. However, I just installed a release candidate build of 2008.11 as my main day-to-day environment- development , email, music, movies, IM, etc. — it’s all in there!

It has this cool backup/snapshot utility called Time Slider, which utilizes OpenSolaris technologies such as ZFS. Accidentally delete a file or destroy its contents? No problem. Think of it as an integrated system-wide SCM that is always working, behind the scenes. The best thing about it- the Time Slider interface is integrated into the GNOME windowing system, which makes it TRIVIAL to use. There has been a justifiable knock that Sun technologies are innovative, but difficult to use by mere mortals. Myth busted!

Check out this short, but very well done, intro video done by our OpenSolaris evangelists: