OpenSolaris: Does it look familiar?

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Yeah, it uses Gnome.

They also seem to have ported a number of the major apps like gimp. I got it to play around with ZFS & this kinda put me off.

Why would this put you off? You get an open environment with access to things like ZFS and DTrace.

What excuse is there for license incompatibilites when they're so far downstream? By porting ZFS & DTrace, OSX seems to be getting more out of Sun's OSS efforts than linux is.

I guess I was also expecting a substantially different environment, like windows to OSX.

Who's downstream of whom?

I don't think very many Unix users want a substantially different environment and Sun can't afford to develop it anyway.

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