While OpenSolaris 2008.11 has been available for download for over a week now, Sun Microsystems hasn’t officially announced its existence. Sun though will be announcing it this morning at what will be a 9AM PST web-launch…
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The OpenSolaris development package repository
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/
has been updated to reflect the changes in snv_101b including major
fixes to the Caiman “Slim Install” and the Image Packaging System
(IPS). This build is the second release candidate build for the
OpenSolaris 2008.11 release. For this build, the recommended minimum
memory size is 512MB or greater.
Users who wish to update [...]

For those interested in helping out Sun Microsystems with testing out the near-final build of OpenSolaris 2008.11, its release candidate is now available. This build is based upon Build 101a of the open-source OpenSolaris code-base…
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OpenSolaris 2008.05 had given a new face to Solaris through a vastly improved desktop experience. While OpenSolaris 2008.05 was not perfect, it was quite pleasant and a very nice first step. Sun Microsystems is now preparing for the release of OpenSolaris 2008.11 to incorporate their latest set of changes. In this article we are looking [...]

Join Software Freedom Day! This event  is taking place Saturday, September 20, 2008.
Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever. With over 200 teams in 60 countries participating, it is a fantastic event to get your schools and communities involved in. Go [...]

Sun has been getting serious about opening up its software for a few years now. OpenSolaris, an open source Unix operating system like Linux and BSD, released in May, is its latest foray into the open source arena. I found OpenSolaris to be a production-ready OS that works equally well on desktops and servers.
OpenSolaris is [...]

Sun is battling hard to break into the open source operating system world with OpenSolaris. Juliet Kemp takes it for a test-drive, sampling its unique features and seeing how it fares against Linux…
OpenSolaris is an open-source project based on (some of) the Solaris operating system code, and sponsored by Sun, but being developed independently. The [...]

The date for the OpenSolaris Storage Summit has been set. We will be hosting the event at the Santa Clara Hyatt Regency hotel on the 21st of September, 2008. This is right before this year’s Storage Developer Conference at which Sun is a Platinum sponsor.
We already have a couple of keynote speakers lined up: Ben [...]

Earlier this month we had provided a first-look at OpenSolaris 2008.11 by using an early version that was based upon the Solaris Express Community b93 code-base. Aside from the updated packages, there wasn’t much to differentiate 2008.11 from the inaugural OpenSolaris 2008.05 (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12269) release…
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EasyTools has been written in PHP, so it is almost trivial to install and
configure. It aims to help newcomers to take their first steps with
OpenSolaris, by helping them to easily perform administration operations at
the same time that it shows the real command that is being executed
underneath.
Features:
* easySMF: view, stop, start, change [...]

The first update to the 0.7 release of BeleniX, a live CD based on OpenSolaris, is now available: “This update brings in the latest development OpenSolaris build 93 and updates to KDE 3.5.9 among other changes, bugfixes. Since this release also includes the latest Caiman installer, upgrades from….
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Hello,
here is the announcement for the next meeting of the
Berlin OpenSolaris User Group.
Zeit: 23. July 2008 - 19:30
Ort: newthinking store Mitte, Tucholskystr. 48, 10117 Berlin
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/brosug/