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Hands-on: OpenSolaris 2008.11 a major step forward for Sun
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| The OpenSolaris development community launched version 2008.11, its second
| release ever, Wednesday. The new version boosts hardware compatibility and
| brings some impressive improvements that illuminate the potential of
| OpenSolaris as a desktop platform. It's still not capable of replacing Linux
| on the desktop, but it shows promise.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081204-hands-on-opensolaris-2008-11-a-major-step-forward-for-sun.html
http://tinyurl.com/58f7um
OS: Does That Mean Operating Systems, Open Source, or Both?
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| Taking an existing operating system to open source is like turning around a
| tanker in open waters—it takes time and it's still fraught with peril.
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| Just ask Sun Microsystems, which has, it seems, successfully turned
| OpenSolaris into an open-source offering, but not overnight. Solaris, if you
| recall, is a proprietary OS originally released by Sun in 1991. However,
| planning for OpenSolaris, the open-source version of the OS, started in early
| 2004 and proceeded incrementally, leading up to the January 2005 open
| sourcing of the DTrace performance tuning tool. About the same time, Sun
| launched the OpenSolaris.org website in an effort to build a developer
| community around Solaris, while simultaneously announcing that the
| OpenSolaris code base would be released under the Common Development and
| Distribution License (CDDL) and that a Community Advisory Board would oversee
| this. Ultimately, OpenSolaris was released in June 2005, with the current
| version, OpenSolaris 2008.05, released in May 2008. Interestingly, this
| version can be booted as a Live CD or installed directly, and uses the GNOME
| desktop environment as the primary UI.
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http://www.ddj.com/linux-open-source/212201757
They still go after the market leader.
Recent:
Sabre Holdings: Red Hat Thrives in Place of Unix
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| When Sabre actually benchmarked Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) running on
| Intel against Solaris on SPARC, it found quite a difference — to say the
| least. The Linux/Intel combination was three times faster than the Sun Unix
| solution, and when both licensing and hardware costs were taken into account
| it worked out about 90 percent cheaper, according to Wiseman.
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http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3781171
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