The OpenSolaris project, which has been slowly gaining momentum over the past year, issued its first official release last week. Designed with an emphasis on usability and easy installation, ...

It has been about six months since I tried out openSolaris 2008.11, and since then they have released their 2009.06 version. Time for another look! Download the LiveCD from the above address, and burn ...

Sun’s OpenSolaris platform aims to supply a user-friendly desktop distribution of the open source Solaris operating system. The third major OpenSolaris release, version 2009.06, was made available ...

The June 2009 (2009.06) release of OpenSolaris provides a solid Open Source GNOME desktop experience like that of a modern Linux distribution combined with the scalability and stability of UNIX. Over ...

Sun and OpenSolaris.org on Monday released the first publicly available version of the OpenSolaris operating system since work on the project began in 2005. The operasting system, which is a single ...

Sun and the OpenSolaris community are launching Monday the official first version of the open-source OpenSolaris operating system, which has only been available in pre-release versions for developers ...

Sun Microsystems on Monday will launch a supported version of OpenSolaris at the CommunityOne conference in San Francisco. After working on OpenSolaris for three years, Sun now has a supported ...

Sun has released the first fruits of a new, more Linux-like attempt to make something useful from its open-source Solaris effort. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Oracle may have dealt a blow last month to businesses relying on the free OpenSolaris operating system, but a new contender has recently emerged that’s designed to be a fully compatible drop-in ...

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Frustrated by Oracle's delay in releasing the latest version of OpenSolaris, the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) is growing uneasy over Oracle's lack of communication regarding the future of the ...