On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Is anyone using OpenSolaris? I know Oracle closed Solaris > development, but there are derivatives of OpenSolaris. I think OpenSolaris is dead (thanks Oracle!) but OpenIndiana is still out there. I've used OpenIndiana, as well as Solaris for x86. I'm using > Arch Linux, but am thinking about the following comments from > a C++ newsgroup. >> In my opinion Solaris (and the numerous OpenSolaris derivatives) have >> better developer tools than Linux, especially for analysing applications >> (and the OS) in a production0n environment. I think you need to have this person elaborate a bit more. Yes, there are some Solaris customized tools but I wouldn't jump to a completely different OS based on some random newsgroup post. Linux has a very robust suite of tools, I'm thinking that eventually I may use Solaris > from Oracle so using OpenSolaris before that might be a good idea. As I recall, Solaris 11 is free in non-production use. Unless you have a reason to run open source, may as well just jump in to the full OS. Brian