Migration from Debian to OpenSolaris

Taking the advantage of the Christmas break, I took the time and migrated my system from well-known Debian Linux to OpenSolaris. My goal was to make the new environment match my Linux setup as close as possible. Among other things, this meant moving from KDE 3.5.x to GNOME, which I was avoiding as much as possible until now, and Nimbus (the look&feel is great!). Maybe some of the remarks obtained during this process can be interesting for others. Without going to much detail about individual things, I though I'd put down the results in this article and leave the details open for comments or next articles, if there's demand. So feel free to leave a comment asking for specifics for the listed items. What went fine: Filesystem support zfs: it's great to create a compressed zfs filesystem for specific files, like repository... [read full story]                    

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