OpenSolaris 2008.05
I installed the latest release of OpenSolaris 2008.05 today. I was lucky enough to have gotten a hold of a w1100z Sun Workstation donated by a buddy.
The install didn’t go as smooth as I would have hoped. Initially the clock was not set properly after having been turned off for an extended period. As a result the desktop would never load. I was able to kill the x session, and in gdm switch to failsafe-gnome, and set the clock. I completed the installation, but when I rebooted I was dropped at a grub prompt, and not the grub menu. I decided to run through the install one more time to make sure I hadn’t missed something. When I booted the live cd this time, with the clock not out of sync, it took me right to the gnome session, and I completed the install. Upon this second reboot, grub came up as expected.
Overall I was a little disappointed. I am happy to have the hardware, and now a functioning OS, but this was Sun hardware (albeit E.O.L. hardware). This should have just worked.
At any rate, there are lots of exciting things going on with OpenSolaris, and I recommend you take a look.