[ale] Sorta-OT: Solaris-10 vs. openSolaris

[John Mills]

ALErs -

I'd appreciate reflections and comparisons of Solaris-10 of 01/2006 and 
the current openSolaris.

Background:
  I'm on the edge of installing some flavor of Solaris for in-house
  learning use and want to choose a path. Box is a curb-pick Dell
  Inspiron-2400 (single P4). Other than for my general background, I may
  set up a few services on that box for my home network and may expose one
  or more services to the wider net.

Candidates:
  I have a DVD installation package for Solaris-10/Jan.2006 from Sun,
  including docs, received as user-group meeting swag, and (naturally) net
  resources are available for openSolaris.

Trade-off (as it looks to me):
  1. The Solaris-10 set is quite complete and includes some non-free
  components. Sun's license is appropriate for my intended personal use.

  2. Jan.2006 to Sep.2008 is aeons on the software-development time line,
  so I could have better and newer code on the openSolaris path.

Your comments and comparisons?

TIA.

  - Mills