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Solaris Source Code Schedule Slips
News Sun Microsystems is planning the bold move of releasing the source code of its Solaris operating system, but those eager for details of the plan may have to wait until early 2005. Weinberg wouldn't commit on Tuesday to saying that Solaris 10 itself...
[November 5, 2004, 8:03]
'We Will Open Source Solaris' - Sun
News "We will open source Solaris. Schwartz also emphasised that Sun will be turning up its engagement level with partners in bringing open-source Solaris to its users in future. But make no mistake, we will open source Solaris," he declared.
[June 2, 2004, 14:40]
Sun Hits Back At Torvalds In Open-source Row
News Software colossus Sun Microsystems has hit back at the founding fathers of open-source for criticising its decision to release some of the source code to Solaris, its version of Unix. Bush also defends Sun's decision to issue the source code for...
[October 7, 1999, 16:31]
Sun Begins Open Source Solaris Era
News The company plans to post more than 5 million lines of source code for the heart of the operating system -- its kernel and networking code -- at the OpenSolaris Web site, said Tom Goguen, Solaris' marketing chief.
[June 14, 2005, 10:25]
Solaris Engineers Offer Personal Source-code Tours
News Sun Microsystems chose to employ the human touch when it introduced more than 5 million lines of Solaris source code onto the Internet on Tuesday. The Solaris Express Community Edition versions will be one step more raw, though, Coopersmith said...
[June 15, 2005, 11:00]
US Report: Sun Makes Solaris Free... For Some
News Solaris' source code, however, will remain a closely guarded secret. Instead of paying $300 to $695 for client and server versions of Solaris 2.6, college types and developers who enjoy tinkering with code for the sake of tinkering can now download...
[August 13, 1998, 7:48]
Solaris Blueprints Still Open To Viewing
News When Sun released Solaris 8 in January 2000, the company tried to tap into some of the energy of the open-source movement by announcing that people would be able to examine, though not change, the source code of Solaris.
[July 3, 2001, 9:38]
Sun (almost) Opens Solaris
News It's not quite open-source software, but developers are about to get access to Solaris without paying for it. Indeed, Sun Microsystems Inc.plans to put all its platform software -including Solaris- under a Community Source License, the company said...
[February 26, 1999, 12:04]
Sun Sets Up Open-source Solaris Project
News Because some portions of Solaris 10, such as device drivers, are the property of other companies, Sun will release source code as well as binaries, in which proprietary code is not accessible, Weinberg said.
[September 14, 2004, 11:05]
Schwartz Swipes At The GPL
News Sun has begun releasing its Solaris source code under the CDDL in a project called OpenSolaris. One Java critic is Linux seller Red Hat, whose operating system competes directly against Sun's Solaris.
[April 6, 2005, 13:50]
The Catch In 'free' Solaris 8
News Source-code licensors may generate binary copies of standard Solaris 8 from the source code but must meet daunting criteria in order to redistribute modified binaries outside the licensor's organisation: A licensor must enter a formal agreement...
[January 27, 2000, 8:15]
Torvalds: Solaris Could Nudge Linux To GPLv3
News At stake in this particular element of the licence debate is whether Linux and Solaris software may intermingle in a single pool of source code or whether they must remain separate, as is the case today.
[June 13, 2007, 9:15]
Sun Gears Solaris For Linux Users
News But there's a barrier to code-sharing between the two projects: currently, the core "kernel" software of Solaris and Linux is under different open-source licences, meaning that software from one project generally can't be moved to the other.
[May 10, 2007, 10:38]
Sun To Boost Solaris' Firepower Against Linux
News Other facets include the decisions to offer Solaris for free while charging for a support subscription; to release the vast majority of source code underlying the operating system, including major new features; and to spread Solaris to mainstream...
[November 18, 2004, 15:20]
Sun Reveals Project To Help OpenSolaris
News OpenSolaris is Sun's open-source project for improving its Solaris version of Unix, an effort it hopes will engage developers and ultimately lead to more customers. And as reported, a key Project Indiana goal will be to make Solaris less alien to...
[June 1, 2007, 8:25]
Sun's Open Source Licence Wins Final OSI Approval
News Sun has secured a crucial approval in its plan to make its Solaris operating system an open source project, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned. Sun has said it will release Solaris under an OSI-approved open source licence by the end of...
[January 19, 2005, 15:10]
Apache Founder Joins OpenSolaris Board
News In January, Sun released its first tidbit of Solaris source code, an optimisation and debugging tool called DTrace. As Sun promised, a minority of the board members are from Sun: Caspar Dik, a Solaris security programmer, and Simon Phipps, Sun's...
[April 5, 2005, 10:20]
Solaris Pricing Targets Red Hat
News The second half will arrive in 60 to 90 days as Sun releases the source code of Solaris under an open-source licence, Loiacono said. With the release of Solaris 8 in 2000, Sun let people look at the source code, if not actually change it, and said...
[November 15, 2004, 8:20]
Sun Ready For War Over IP Litigation
News As Sun moves to tie itself more closely to the developer community by releasing an open-source version of Solaris, chief executive officer Scott McNealy has reinforced the company's willingness to "take bullets" to protect end users from patent...
[November 17, 2004, 11:30]
Windows Server 2003 Hits The Streets
News Windows Server 2003 passes Solaris 9 Mon 14 April: Microsoft's upcoming Windows Server 2003 may not have launched yet, but it is already used for hosting more Web sites than Sun's year-old Solaris 9 Code leak spurs Windows Server 2003 piracy
[April 24, 2003, 16:04]
