Sun recently released a live CD for their OpenSolaris operating system. What’s one more platform for testing FATE? They’re all virtual anyway. Live CDs make us so spoiled these days.

I got the OS installed in a VMware [Fusion] session. But the operating system wouldn’t boot after the boot loader told it to. I have not had a chance to troubleshoot the issue further.

I wonder what development tools are available under OpenSolaris? Does it just provide gcc? Or is there a proprietary Sun compiler for x86_64? I know Sun invests heavily in compiler optimization, but for their own Sparc hardware; I can’t imagine they would pour any money into making code run well on other CPU architectures.