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Limitations take the shine off open Sun
Leader With OpenSolaris, Sun is releasing a huge body of work for everyone to look at and learn from -- and that alone is a historical move deserving applause. Also, Sun demands co-ownership of copyright of anything contributed to OpenSolaris itself.
[June 14, 2005, 15:00]
Creating a Multi-Boot Mini-Server
Blog Because of an upcoming job interview (yes, I am still looking, unsuccessfully), I wanted to set up a system with openSolaris and perhaps CentOS. I started by researching multi-boot openSolaris/Linux systems.
[August 24, 2009, 18:01]
Virtually Dude. Its Really Cool!
Blog At present openSolaris has that and zfs as its two small potential advantages over any Linux variations. I have downloaded the Live CD images for OpenSolaris 10, Fedora 9 and 10, Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.1, Mandriva2009 and openSuse11 and installed them...
[December 18, 2008, 2:43]
Sun boosts open storage strategy
News Sun has put its weight behind open-source storage, with the release of new developer tools and services connected to the OpenSolaris developer effort. Sun released OpenSolaris, an open-source version of its flagship Solaris operating system, in...
[May 1, 2008, 13:33]
Sun enters Google orbit
News Tuesday to help spread and develop each other's software, a deal that includes OpenOffice.org, Java and OpenSolaris from Sun, and Google's OpenSolaris. There's a huge alignment strategy with research and.development, (involving) OpenDocument format...
[October 5, 2005, 9:10]
Torvalds: Solaris could nudge Linux to GPLv3
News If Sun really is going to release OpenSolaris under GPLv3, that may be a good reason" to move Linux to the new licence, Torvalds said in a posting to the Linux kernel mailing list on Sunday. In February, members of the OpenSolaris community...
[June 13, 2007, 9:15]
Sun may choose GPL for Solaris
News The server and software company previously made Solaris an open-source project called OpenSolaris in 2005, releasing source code under the Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL). In this case, GPL for Java, and for OpenSolaris, the...
[November 15, 2006, 9:21]
Sun modernising Solaris start-up process
News Newboot made its appearance on Tuesday in OpenSolaris, the open source version of the Unix operating system that Sun has begun releasing. Through actions such as adding Newboot and releasing OpenSolaris, Sun is trying to restore its operating...
[June 16, 2005, 16:35]
Sun begins open source Solaris era
News And OpenSolaris isn't doomed as an open source project simply because it has been Sun's proprietary, in-house project. The company plans to post more than 5 million lines of source code for the heart of the operating system -- its kernel and...
[June 14, 2005, 10:25]
Solaris code due today
News Sun had hoped to launch OpenSolaris in 2004, but it was held up by licensing discussions with companies, Sun executives have said. Sun representatives will hold two of the five positions on the OpenSolaris advisory board, Goguen said.
[January 25, 2005, 8:00]
HP to sell ProLiant servers with Sun's Solaris
News HP will also increase its participation in the OpenSolaris community, working on feature development and interoperability. At this stage, we count more than a 1,000 x86 systems supported by Solaris and OpenSolaris, and nearly 8,000 [independent...
[February 26, 2009, 15:46]
Sun contemplating open sourcing JES
News As expected, Sun launched its OpenSolaris.org Web site on Tuesday, released its Dynamic Tracing component of the upcoming Solaris 10 as open source software, and announced that more than 1,600 patents will be available for unfettered use -- a...
[January 26, 2005, 10:35]
Sun listens to customers and adds PostgreSQL support
News At the same press conference, Sun also said it is releasing its 128-bit file systems, Solaris ZFS, into the OpenSolaris open source project. In addition, Sun will add the Xen virtualization software into OpenSolaris and make it available with an...
[November 18, 2005, 9:10]
Novell beats SCO - could Sun be next?
Blog Sun bought rights from SCO, to allow it to build OpenSolaris and open-source it. So, it's been suggested that Novell could take action over OpenSolaris. Alternatively, as Novell and Sun both actually like open source software, they could team up...
[July 18, 2008, 15:26]
Sun loses open source leader
News Sun is losing Cooper, but it won't lose its current open source focus, which includes most prominently the OpenSolaris project to make its version of Unix open source. Since then, Sun has tried numerous ways to release software, including more...
[March 21, 2005, 8:15]
Solaris software portal faces closure
News Blastwave maintains close ties to both Sun and the OpenSolaris project. We have been involved with the OpenSolaris pilot project since it was an idea on a whiteboard. The Blastwave software set is built to install into OpenSolaris builds," he added.
[September 9, 2005, 10:05]
Open source Java coming this year
News Sun is targeting hardware companies and software developers that could build products on top of OpenSolaris, the open source edition of Solaris, he added. Rather than build custom chips, Sun hopes that these partners will use OpenSolaris, which...
[October 24, 2006, 9:10]
Slackware Linux 13.0 Released (and Installed)
Blog The only significant stumble was that Slackware uses the LILO bootloader, which I choose not to use, but even that wasn't a major problem for me because I have to keep the openSolaris GRUB as the bootloader anyway, so I just told it to skip the...
[September 3, 2009, 9:02]
Lighting a fire under Solaris
News So far, three products combine OpenSolaris with higher-level software packages: Nexenta , Schillix and Belenix. Sun has tickled the interest of some developers through the OpenSolaris project, though Linux has far broader community involvement.
[April 26, 2006, 11:45]
What to expect from Sun's JavaOne 2009
Blog Expect announcements regarding OpenSolaris & Cloud Computing too. There is a tip off and link here to OpenSolaris events at CommunityOne - the show's preview day zero. Sun Microsystems didn't let a little thing like being acquired by Oracle get in...
[June 1, 2009, 1:11]
