Yesterday, the OpenSolaris team released OpenSolaris 2008.05, the fruit of Project Indiana. The first review we found was published over at Blogbeebe, which is overall fairly positive. At the same time, Practical Technology believes that "OpenSolaris has finally been released just in time to die".
I won't bore you with the details of the review itself (you can read for yourself), but the conclusion sums it up pretty well:
OpenSolaris shows a lot of intriguing features with this release. It isn't perfect, and it's lack of support of many audio subsystems required for full multimedia (such as the M685's Intel 82801G (ICH7) high definition audio controller) makes this release more suitable for OS geeks and developers than the average Joe Sixpack. But it's definitely a release worth investigating further, and certainly one worth keeping an eye on for future development.
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