I’m looking forward to the release of OpenSolaris 2010.03. Among other reasons – a stable dedup engine, a simpler automated installer process, and most importantly for me, built in drivers for the dual gigabit NICs on my fileserver’s motherboard. This means I can either leave the Intel NIC in place, and have three dladm aware NICs, or move one over to my development box, Thor, which is currently running on ¹⁰⁄₁₀₀.

I really hope Oracle doesn’t decide to kill off the OpenSolaris project. It’s doing me wonders. But with recent moves they have been making, I’m not so sure.