When OpenSolaris got started, #solaris was a channel filled with pointless rants about GNU-this and Linux-that. Beside complete wrong-headedness, it was a total waste of time and extremely hostile to new people. #opensolaris, in contrast, was actually pretty nice (for IRC!) - sure, the usual pointless discussions but it certainly wasn't hateful.

Recently I'm sad to say #opensolaris has become a really hostile, unpleasant place. I've seen new people arrive and be bullied by a small number of poisonous people until they went away (nice own goal, people!). So if anyone's looking for me for xVM stuff or whatever, I'll be in #onnv-scm or #solaris-xen as usual. And if you do so, please try to keep a civil tongue in your head - it's not hard.