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2.) There were two recommendations for OpenSolaris in these posts. I can probably research this myself, so don't spend too much time answering this, but what is the difference between Solaris and OpenSolaris.
Solaris is generic the name of this OS which is based on UNIX System V release 4.0. The last major release was Solaris 2.0 in the early nineties. Since then, there has been many minor releases, the last one being Solaris 10. There are also regular updates, last one is update 8 (S10u8) releases this month (08/09). Most of Solaris 10 source code has been gradually open sourced since 2005, and this source code and the community around it is named OpenSolaris.
There are several operatings systems based on that source code, one being also named OpenSolaris, latest release 2009.06.
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Does Solaris have functionality that OpenSolaris doesn't, or vice versa?
You will find more features and newer applications in OpenSolaris than in Solaris 10. Some of them are backported to Solaris 10 but not all of them. The next minor version of Solaris, dubbed Solaris 11 but might be something totally different, will be built on top of the OpenSolaris code.