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, ...

OpenSolaris comes on a single CD, which is very convenient. It has a neat installation routine, very similar to that of Ubuntu though the installation takes somewhat longer. It is more aesthetically ...

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 ...

The OpenSolaris community just released the first complete "Project Indiana" edition of the OS - and in that process demonstrated why community enthusiasm for the product seems to have weakened ...

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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