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OpenSolaris group votes to disband

...a rival to the broadly-developed Linux operating system, control over the OpenSolaris project essentially on Monday reverted to its new corporate master, Oracle, which... Read more

24 August, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

OpenSolaris board may quit over Oracle's silence

The OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB), the body responsible for directing the development of OpenSolaris... Read more

14 July, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

Oracle puts OpenSolaris to rest

...has closed the book on open distributions of the enterprise operating system OpenSolaris, according to a leaked memo. In an internal communication to Solaris engineers... Read more

16 August, 2010 by Luke Hopwell

Oracle outlines plans for Solaris 11

...developers, end users and partners using previous generations of earlier Solaris and OpenSolaris releases". In August, OpenSolaris — a push to offer the proprietary OS in... Read more

21 September, 2010 by Ben Woods

R.I.P. openSolaris

Some time ago I wrote a blog entry titled openSolaris - Dead and Buried. At the time I hoped the situation wasn't... Read more

17 August, 2010

Oracle signs Solaris deals with HP and Dell

...remained silent about the fate of the open-source version of Solaris, OpenSolaris. Oracle Enterprise Linux, introduced in 2006, is based on and competes with... Read more

30 July, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

Hey HP and Oracle; the kids can hear you fighting

...enjoy and it's already cut back on source code distribution of OpenSolaris in favour of Solaris 11 Express and first abruptly cancelled then renewed... Read more

2 April, 2011

Red Hat rolls out Fedora 14

...RHEL) distribution. In that respect the distribution is similar to Sun's OpenSolaris, the development of which was terminated following Sun's acquisition by Oracle... Read more

3 November, 2010 by Matthew Broersma
iTrain 2.0.5

iTrain 2.0.5

...major computer operating systems such as Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and OpenSolaris. Client server architecture allows extra computers to be used as extra overviews... Read more

14 March, 2012
Enhancing the Performance of NFSv4 With RDMA

Enhancing the Performance of NFSv4 With RDMA

...of the latest revisions, v4 has started to become deployed. NFSv4 on OpenSolaris uses TCP as the underlying transport. This has limited its performance. In... Read more

1 January, 2011
The Diversity of TPMs and its Effects on Development

The Diversity of TPMs and its Effects on Development

...effects on a TSS implementation, which emerged from the Sun/Dartmouth TCG/OpenSolaris project, one of the goals of which was instrumenting TPM support on... Read more

4 October, 2010
Trusted Virtual Containers on Demand

Trusted Virtual Containers on Demand

...on the research project to address these limitations by using TPMs inside OpenSolaris: The kernel creates lightweight containers on demand, and uses DTrace and other... Read more

4 October, 2010
Heart Link Online N.V.-Belgium Launches Telemedicine Solution on Highly Scalable Hardware Platform

Heart Link Online N.V.-Belgium Launches Telemedicine Solution on Highly Scalable Hardware Platform

...built on Oracle's Sun Blade Server Technology, Sun Unified Storage, and OpenSolaris, enabling Heart Link Online to lay the foundation for its new and... Read more

1 June, 2010

Apache founder joins OpenSolaris board

...source Apache software project to join a new advisory board governing the OpenSolaris operating system project, the software and server maker said Monday. Roy Fielding... Read more

5 April, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Sun deal puts OpenSolaris on Toshiba laptops

...Sun has reached an agreement with Toshiba to pre-install the OpenSolaris operating system on Toshiba laptops. The laptops will be available in the... Read more

11 December, 2008 by Tom Espiner

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