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By Tom Espiner, ZDNet UK on December 12th, 2008

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Sun has reached an agreement with Toshiba to pre-install the OpenSolaris operating system on Toshiba laptops.

The laptops will be available in the US from early 2009 and will come with the latest version of OpenSolaris: 2008.11. "Toshiba and Sun are announcing that we're going to pre-configure and optimise OpenSolaris for certain Toshiba models," said Jim McHugh, Sun's vice president of datacentre software, in a promotional video.

The firms have yet to release details on availability, pricing or which laptop models would feature the operating system.

OpenSolaris is Sun's flagship operating system, designed for desktop, server and high-performance computing environments. Features in OpenSolaris 2008.11 include Time Slider, a graphical interface slide bar that allows users to access previous versions of files.

"Time Slider lets us integrate ZFS [file system] snapshots taken automatically by the system with a standard window environment file browser," said Stephen Hahn, OpenSolaris project lead. "It lets you access previous versions of your source code, of your word-processing document or any other thing that you're saving on your system." Developers will have greater access to repositories, said Sun, and will be able to deliver code to OpenSolaris users through the updated package manager.

Sun also extended its OpenSolaris subscription options. There will be two subscription plans: 'production' and 'essentials'.

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Talkback

Too early

OpenSolaris and Solaris are excellent operationg systems, but for now OpenSolaris have a little too much beta quality feel to it for this too succeed.

The time slider is avesome, but that is not enough e.g. they need to make it easier to set up and change network settings, Both wireless and wired ones.

All this will probably be fixed by 2009.11 if they continue to improve at their current rate, so why ruin their reputation by releasing it prematurely.
Solaris and OpenSolaris have great potensials even on the desktop.

AnonymousAnonymous December 14th, 2008
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Suspend and Hybernate

If they can make suspend and hybernate work flawlessly on their laptops that would be awesome!

AnonymousAnonymous December 15th, 2008
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What the ####?

Just wondering what Toshiba is doing by choosing to work with Solaris. Okay, from all I hear, it is a good and stable OS.

But with the growth of linux in netbooks and the seeming further growth of linux, as well as the maturity of linux, it seems foolish to choose a system that has even LESS available software. If trends continue, I expect we will see more software that has been traditionally windows only being ported to both Mac and Linux... But Solaris??? Who is going to try to port their software to Solaris???

D.

AnonymousAnonymous December 17th, 2008
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Small differences

Linux, BSD, and OpenSolaris are all pretty similar. Porting software is always about revenue--indirectly from volume, or directly via agreements. I'm waiting to see what OpenSolaris does next.

AnonymousAnonymous December 25th, 2008
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Opensolaris and Solaris

I thought that when I first experimented with Solaris however I soon discovered that in enterprise there are thousands of projects porting to Solaris and a continually expanding porting programe for desktop users.After using vista I am continuing to look for a breath of fresh air.Still in development Opensolaris is not perfect especially on hardware but the potential is there especially for more experienced users.

AnonymousAnonymous March 11th, 2009
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All OEMs should offer Ubuntu

Ubuntu is the cheapest (free) and easiest to use from the typical windows or non-technical user standpoint.
Ubuntu should be available for all laptops, workstations and servers from all OEMs.

AnonymousAnonymous December 20th, 2008
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LOL

LOL

It seems you haven't tried Mandriva or OpenSuSE. Ubuntu is good and pure hype, those two are WAY WAY better, I prefer Mandriva, give it a try.

Oh and why it would be the "cheapest" ? what would make it cheapier than other FREE distros? you sound more like a religious fanatic promoting ubuntu than someone with a little bit of common sence.

AnonymousAnonymous January 7th, 2009
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OpenSolaris? WTF??

On a laptop... supported for the next 10 minutes, and forgotten about in the next 5.

It will get formatted, and an "illegal" copy of Windoze will be running on it before you spell toshiba. thanks for finding a way to bring the hardware just a lil bit cheaper without the "MS" tax.

Get real, "OPEN" platforms are things that are community driven due to curiosity or care, and not just another profit mongering scheme between some big arse "companies" that are facing a changing economy.
[take partnerships like this, and HTC/TMO/Goo the G1 for example. ha..]

like watching a dying bug twitch and calling it "innovation".

AnonymousAnonymous December 21st, 2008
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Roll on 2009

Suns traditional weakness is marketing.Hopefully alink up to Toshiba will be a learning experience for all..Sun needs to deliver a version sutable for the business user.Toshiba will need to develope branding and graphics.To be convincing for the buyer Toshiba and sun will need to produce a slick new design hardware and fully supported sofware package as a professionals MUST HAVE item for business or personal use.At the moment we can see this coming together but not for twelve months or so. Ed Blooskys Consulting UK

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