Really? Cray started doing this back in 1985, so I wouldn't call it "HOBBY level tech."

Illegal means ILLEGAL. The U.S. has yet to grant its citizens the privilege to pick and choose which laws they wish to abide by without consequence.

From TFA's technical notes: "Unfortunately, the RAM had no ECC (Error Correcting Code), so random bit errors could not be corrected nor detected. Since the computation lasted more than 100 days, such errors were likely [12]."

Great we have all these digits, but they're mostly useless bits and their reliability is suspect.

There's no such thing as "Solaris/OpenSolaris 10", however, Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris do actually exist and are indeed really awesome.

Are you kidding? Us finance types *need* Excel since OO doesn't hold a candle to the OLAP and Pivot tools Excel has. Don't get me wrong, I like and still use OO at home and it's fine for a receptionist, but not suitable for many departments in an organization (yet). In this case, moving to OO would be fragmenting and increasing the difficulty of supporting different office suites.

MySQL for critical financial data, are you mad? MySQL is fine for simple stuff, but if you need critical reliability with MySQL and have to use InnoDB ($$) and other performance killers on MySQL to make it reliable, just use Postgres if you want the best open source database. Otherwise, use Oracle, or hell, even SQL Server.

MAJOR work has been done in OpenSolaris 2008.11 (now available) to support a wider array of hardware since even the 2008.05 release. There's a good chance your wireless device will now be supported on OpenSolaris out-of-the-box, as they say.

Due to licensing restrictions, of which most people forget MP3 is proprietary, you need to get a license to download the MP3 GStreamer plugin on OpenSolaris. The license is free from Fluendo's website, but requires registration. Registration, downloading, and installation takes just a few minutes and is completely legitimate.

IMHO, there are many compelling reasons to run OpenSolaris over GNU/Linux which overcome the slight advantages you've described in Ubuntu's installation process (which really is slick).

Suspend works great on my ThinkPad T61 and OpenSolaris 2008.11, but unfortunately, there still is no hibernate functionality.

And all of those phones you mentioned would not be permitted on the premises. Most uses have a Blackberry phone models w/o built-in cameras.

Agreed. NWAM is ideal for desktop use, but of course, anyone setting up a server will be turning it off among many other custom configuration - as with any server setup.

I use OpenSolaris for development on my ThinkPad T61 laptop and it's an excellent platform and ideal combination. For one required Windows development app (project dependent), I run XP as a VirtualBox VM and it works better and faster than if XP were installed to bare metal. ZFS is really slick. Turning ZFS compression=on means more laptop hard drive space AND faster performance since the HDDs are relatively slow (even my 320GB 7,200 rpm) and now having to read/write less to disk.

Sun's new packaging system, IPS, and the new repositories are growing with software selections and software is as easy to manage as Debian's apt-get.

Anyone here that thinks OpenSolaris will fail obviously hasn't used it. Give it a try and I bet a large portion of you Slashdot Linux zealots will move to OpenSolaris or at least give it the respect it deserves.

The likely target audience to wide deployment of OpenSolaris laptops are probably prohibited from possessing laptops with web cameras built-in. You'd be surprised how many large corporations and government organizations don't allow cameras of any sort on the premises.

You obviously have no idea what you are talking about or have never used OpenSolaris, ZFS, IPS, zones, SMF, or any of the enticing feature OpenSolaris possesses that Linux doesn't have. Besides, if nothing else, Toshiba selling an OpenSolaris laptop might not be the #1 choice for home users, but is at least an interesting alternative to larger corporate customers.

Agreed, especially since decent support will be needed for those less financially or tech savvy.