Opensolaris or debian as dev and file server?

Opensolaris or debian as dev and file server? I'm setting up a new dev and file share server for myself in the closet from my old desktop. I've been running Debian as long as I can remember and have nothing to blaim. Now I'm looking at ZFS and feeling really intrigued by it's features.
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Guest [Entry]

If you're interested in ZFS, then you might want to try FreeBSD. The software selection is better than OpenSolaris.

Guest [Entry]

"As an FYI, you could also run Solaris 10, which also supports ZFS, and is a bit less ""bleeding-edge"" than OpenSolaris.

The biggest thing that I see here is that (Open)Solaris(10) requires a lot more hardware to run smoothly than Linux. With the specs that you list, performance will not be very good. If you add more RAM (4GB+ total), you should see an increase in performance, and a faster, multi-core processor would also be a benefit.

So, in this case I would choose Debian over Solaris."