This OS goes from strenght to strenght.Currently been developed at a lighting pace it still has issues in hardware support and multimedia devlopment of applications.Now launched on Tosiba laptops as OEM.Aimed at the average user to the professional in the enterprise space it is still a stable branded OS for your home desktop. Try it great potential !

I needed an inexpensive application server. Really inexpensive. Using spare parts and $150 combination of new motherboard/processor/memory I put together a box hoping to run Solaris. It came close but failed because the parts I had been able to afford were not supported by the OS. OpenSolaris to the rescue! Frustrated by five evenings of installs and reinstalls of the five CD Solaris package I was ready to throw in the towel. As a last ditch effort I downloaded OpenSolaris and burned a copy of the Live CD. Great way to distribute an OS. Instead of installing five CD's to find out my hardware wasn't supported, I booted from the Live CD and performed a driver test of my hardware before installation. Every bit of the box, both old and new, was supported. Right from the first boot networking worked and the package manager could download anything necessary that wasn't on the Live CD. Network auto magic is cool. And they make it easy to disable once you figure out you really don't want your application server using DHCP and picking up a new IP every time you restart the box. But I digress. There are many great features of this OS such as the ZFS file system which you can find information about. For me, the boot first, perform driver test, one-click install made Open Solaris a great choice.