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OpenSolaris comes to the mainframe
News Sun on Monday announced the availability of a prototype of OpenSolaris for IBM's System z mainframes, the first time the open-source operating system has been available in a mainframe environment. The prototype, downloadable from the OpenSolaris...
[November 3, 2008, 16:32]
openSolaris 2008.11
Blog Oh, and by the way, it is using the "ati" driver, not the proprietary "fglrx" driver, pretty much what I expected.openSolaris on the x86 platform uses the GRUB boot loader, so I wanted to look at how that was configured.
[March 20, 2009, 12:13]
OpenSolaris adds more developer goodies
Blog The new version of OpenSolaris has quite a few new features, and some of them look interesting for the developer. You could also argue that including compatibility with other OSs' APIs is just copying what others have done -- and Sun has only added...
[June 2, 2009, 16:26]
Sun Stays Open: A Closer Look at OpenSolaris 2009.06
Blog With critics inevitably drawing conclusions over a more corporate and newly monetised version of Sun Microsystems emerging from the Oracle acquisition, the company used its 'day zero' Community One day at JavaOne 2009 to champion the cause of the...
[June 2, 2009, 1:42]
Sun deal puts OpenSolaris on Toshiba laptops
News Sun has reached an agreement with Toshiba to pre-install the OpenSolaris operating system on Toshiba laptops. The laptops will be available in the US from early 2009 and will come with the latest version of OpenSolaris: 2008.11
[December 11, 2008, 13:15]
What lies ahead for OpenSolaris?
News The company is expected to start sharing some source code of the Unix version and to detail its OpenSolaris plan on Tuesday, moves it hopes will help build an active programming community around the software.
[January 25, 2005, 14:10]
IBM brands OpenSolaris a 'facade'
News OpenSolaris isn't a true open source project, but rather a "facade", because Sun doesn't share control of it with outsiders, executives from rival IBM say. Sun could do "simple things" to build a real OpenSolaris community if it were serious about...
[August 17, 2006, 8:45]
Sun adds enterprise features to OpenSolaris
News Sun is set to launch the latest version of OpenSolaris, tuning it for the enterprise with a new support contract, processor support, and networking and storage technology. Sun, which is in the process of being acquired by Oracle, is expected to...
[June 1, 2009, 15:40]
Another Look at openSolaris
Blog It has been about six months since I tried out openSolaris 2008.11, and since then they have released their 2009.06 version. If I don't manage to figure that out, I'm afraid I'll have to wait a while again, until I have a system around here which I...
[August 7, 2009, 15:25]
Sun reveals project to help OpenSolaris
News Sun has revealed the outline of a project code-named Indiana, an effort to package up the OpenSolaris operating system into a convenient and usable "distribution" in the mould of Linux. This project proposes to create an OpenSolaris binary...
[June 1, 2007, 8:25]
Apache founder joins OpenSolaris board
News Sun has tapped a founder of the successful open source Apache software project to join a new advisory board governing the OpenSolaris operating system project, the software and server maker said Monday.
[April 5, 2005, 10:20]
Another Look at openSolaris
Blog Comment I installed OpenSolaris as a guest OS in free VirtualBox, running on Ubuntu as the host OS. You then install OpenSolaris onto a virtual HDD. OpenSolaris occupies about 3.5GB when installed. Compared to Linux and Windows, OpenSolaris takes a long...
[August 10, 2009, 9:38]
Sun updates OpenSolaris
News Sun this week launched the second release of OpenSolaris, incorporating a number of improvements aimed at making it more competitive with desktop-orientated Linux distributions such as Canonical's Ubuntu.
[December 5, 2008, 16:47]
Could Novell kill OpenSolaris?
Blog Sun's just opened its developer conference with the long-delayed launch of OpenSolaris, the open source version of its Solaris operating system. It's taken Sun since 2005 to turn OpenSolaris into a proper release, which Sun intends will stand...
[May 7, 2008, 12:59]
Sun kicks off JavaOne with OpenSolaris
Blog Day zero was presented as a pre-show community day with its own keynote address, during which the company’s executive VP of software Rich Green announced a newly packaged version of the OpenSolaris operating system.
[May 6, 2008, 1:47]
Apache founder joins OpenSolaris board
Talkback Make sure you differentiate what Sun actually did with its code. It's open source.in the fact that anyone can look at its code. However, you can't do anything other than give back to Solaris and Sun with the code.so it isn't pure GPL open source.
[April 5, 2005, 12:19]
Another Look at openSolaris
Blog Comment Your estimate of openSolaris' installed disk use corresponds with my actual installation. I agree, openSolaris takes quite a long time to boot. Hi Gnothi, Thanks for reading and commenting, as always.
[August 7, 2009, 19:12]
Another Look at openSolaris
Blog Comment Jayson - Thanks, I will definitely do that. It sounds great.jw
[August 8, 2009, 7:16]
Another Look at openSolaris
Blog Comment I run Ubuntu as my "main" host OS, but via VirtualBox I have at least 10 different Linux Distro's as well as Solaris 10, OpenSolaris and Windows XP & 7 (Release Candidate) at my fingertips. Hi JW - by all means check out a Virtualization Solution!
[August 10, 2009, 9:42]
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[December 21, 2005, 14:22]
