OpenIndiana (OI) is a distribution of illumos, which is a community fork of OpenSolaris. And OpenSolaris itself was the open source version of Solaris, before it (OpenSolaris) was discontinued by Oracle, after Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, Inc., in January 2010. Before OI’s base was switched to Illumos, it was based on OpenSolaris. I know this [...]

After a long, and arduous, release cycle, I am pleased to report that NexentaStor 3.1 is available now. Customers running existing 3.0 installations may upgrade at no cost. This release includes a number of key features, including some significant improvements for performance and manageability. Folks using SCSI target mode will probably see the biggest performance [...]

Project OpenIndiana is pleased to announce the next development release – oi_148. oi_148 has seen a lot of improvements in documentation and processes to enable more people to contribute releasing more development knowledge to the community instead of being locked in a small number of people’s heads.  If you want to help with OpenIndiana please [...]

Today we are announcing the immediate availability of Oracle Solaris 11 Express 2010.11, providing administrators with access to the latest technology innovation with a fully production ready release. Oracle Solaris continues to be the industry leading, mission critical operating system for the enterprise. Oracle Solaris 11 Express raises that bar, delivering immediate access to the [...]

Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I’d like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0.1. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadStable Over the NCP 3.0, this release includes * Fixes to nexenta-zones * Additional backports from ON to b134. You can also upgrade from NCP3 using  #apt-clone [...]

OpenSolaris is dead, but OpenIndiana lives on. Just a few weeks after Oracle made it clear that OpenSolaris was dead as a doornail, the Illumos and OpenIndiana folks have a distribution ready for the OpenSolaris community that’s been left in a lurch by Oracle. The code dropped on Tuesday, so I haven’t had a lot [...]

As expected, Yesterday afternoon OpenIndiana project was publicly announced.openindiana “OpenIndiana “is a brand new distribution of OpenSolaris, constructed by the community, for the community. The primary goal is to be a binary and package compatible drop in replacement for the official OpenSolaris and forthcoming Solaris 11 and Solaris 11 Express releases.” This project was created [...]

On Tuesday 14th September, we will be unveiling OpenIndiana – an exciting new distribution of OpenSolaris! OpenIndiana is a continuation of the OpenSolaris operating system. It was conceived during the period of uncertainty following the Oracle takeover of Sun Microsystems, after several months passed with no binary updates made available to the public. The formation [...]

Last month we reported that the OpenSolaris Governing Board may kill itself if Oracle would not appoint a liaison to the OpenSolaris community to interact with and communicate their future plans. After that OGB death threat was announced, the Illumos project was announced, which is basically a fork of OpenSolaris. Less than two weeks ago, [...]

Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I’d like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadStable This is the same iso as the RC3 release. — The near future: NCP 3.9 The move to NCP 4.0 will be in 2 phases. The [...]

Just a day after Oracle filed suit against Google for its use of Java in Android, the FOSS community received another blow at the hands of the tech giant in the form of news that it plans to kill the OpenSolaris project. “This is a terrible sendoff for countless hours of work — for quality [...]

Hi All, This memo was circulated internally within Oracle (and subsequently leaked). Basically, the open source development model has now been axed and OpenSolaris is officially now dead. A very sad day indeed. Solaris Engineering, Today we are announcing a set of decisions regarding the path to Solaris 11, and answering key pending questions on [...]

Nexenta’s Garrett D’Amore presented Illumos, an OpenSolaris derivative which aims to create an all open source baseline for future distributions. Illumos will be based on OS/Net, a consolidation of the core operating system and networking components of OpenSolaris, with all the closed source elements, such as libc_i18n, nfs lock manager and critical drivers, replaced with [...]

A number of the community leaders from the OpenSolaris community have been working quietly together on a new effort called Illumos, and we’re just about ready to fully disclose our work to, and invite the general participation of, the general public. We believe that everyone who is interested in OpenSolaris should be interested in what [...]

Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I’d like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC3. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the RC2 release include: * ON fixes backported to b134 — Nexenta ON gate repository: http://www.nexenta.org/projects/nexenta-gate/repository * NCP2 stable repository (with [...]

Since Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems last year, the future of the Solaris and OpenSolaris operating systems have been called into question especially as the OpenSolaris 2010.1H release was missing and has been that way for months now with no official communication from Oracle. A new OpenSolaris release hasn’t come in more than a year and [...]

Goodbye, OpenSolaris. It’s been fun knowing you. Unfortunately for you, it’s become all too clear that your new parent company, Oracle, doesn’t want a thing to do with you. I predicted that Oracle, which is a Linux company, was going to let OpenSolaris die from neglect, but most people disagreed with me. Folks insisted that [...]

Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I’d like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC2. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the RC1 release include: * Dozens of ON fixes backported to b134 * Bug fix list: http://www.nexenta.org/versions/show/14 — Nexenta ON gate [...]

Hi All, On behalf of NexentaStor team, I’m happy to announce the release of NexentaStor Community Edition 3.0.3. This release is the result of the community efforts of Nexenta Partners and users. Changes over 3.0.2 include * Many fixes to ON/ZFS backported to b134. * Multiple bug fixes in the appliance. With the addition of [...]

Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I’d like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC1. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the Beta3 release include: * Dozens of ON fixes backported to b134  - List: http://www.nexenta.org/projects/nexenta-gate/repository * Bug fix list: http://www.nexenta.org/versions/show/4 — [...]