OpenSolaris & Intel Xeon Processors: Episode 1

Why Intel & OpenSolaris?
David Stewart, Engineering Manager with Intel Open Source Technology Center provides an introduction to why Intel is excited about working on OpenSolaris. Find out about the projects Intel is working on and how you as a software developer can collaborate with us in the OpenSolaris Community.

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[Harry Kudunas]

or openSUSE. :-)

[lastmiles]

I have one. lol

[Scott Toothman]

my Sun Blade 2500 came with an XVR-100 wich was nothing more than an ATI Radeon 7000 I soon replaced it with a Sun XVR-1200. Check out my card swap video on my channel.

[Scott Toothman]

Love the Xeon but I'll keep my SPARC CPU's - hope Oracle doesn't kill SPARC ... eeek ...

[TheWorkingPart]

That is not a bad processor.

[Fireicer Cooper]

yup thats true i luuuuuuuuurv solaris allooot but the darn thing has no support for ati graphics boards. Next workstation=nvidia graphics sorry ati but solaris works on nvidia

[Fireicer Cooper]

reduce power? urm that's just to save money, electricity is way to expensive. In the UK we have many Green power station that burn our rubbish in a catalyst burner to power our needs. price stays the darn same mind you, it don't go down because its our rubbish there using as a fuel lol. i thought it was crazy when we hit a kw power supply on a standard pc so yea more cost than anything. A kettle is 2kw and some pc's are close to that. kettle on 24x7 eek pricey, back to candle light

[perlfu1630]

ZFS support isn't solaris specific. The BSD's support it, but they're also not license nazi's. (no offense, it's just how things are). OpenSolaris also isn't meant to be a Ubuntu competitor. Ubuntu is geared for a totally different market. OpenSolaris is designed to be a powerful workstation OS. It's not really designed to take over desktops everywhere like Ubuntu. At least not at this point. So comparing the two is asinine.

[fredrik999z]

OpenSolaris has some interesting features, ZPS is really cool, but today Ubuntu is way better as an open source operating system. It is faster and has a lot more programs and hardware support.

[ISLAM Abou El Ata]

This guy is a very good speaker!

to thegenrl: Mr Stewart does not work for Sun!

to solaris10user: It's not Intel's job to release drivers for non mainstream OS's, if they release proper documentation (and they do) as well as full hardware specs, people should thank them for that.

If they write drivers for OpenSolaris, we should thank them even more.

to: peterinfamilyguy: I'd avoid this kind of troll here.