Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I’d like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta3, the final beta release in the NCP3 cycle. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the Beta2 release include: * Dozens of ON fixes backported to b134  - [...]

Oracle needs to start coming clean about its plans for OpenSolaris. Even after the close of the Sun deal, very little is being said about OpenSolaris and with Oracle tightening restrictions on Solaris 10, the company needs to come clean with the community. As of last week, Oracle put the kibosh on unrestricted use of [...]

Hi All, On behalf of NexentaStor team, I’m happy to announce the release of NexentaStor Community Edition 3.0. This release is the result of the community efforts of Nexenta Partners and users. With the addition of many new features, NexentaStor CE is the *most complete*, and feature-rich gratis unified storage solution today. This is a [...]

Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I’d like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta1, the sixth release in the NCP3 cycle. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the Alpha5 release include: * move from OpenSolaris b133 to b134 * nexenta-on-source changes [...]

At the OpenSolaris Annual Meeting, held on IRC, Oracle executive Dan Roberts has assured the community about the future of the open source version of Solaris. The statements, available as a log of the meeting, have led Peter Tribble, who had expressed concerns on the lack of communication, to conclude “rumours of its [OpenSolaris] death [...]

Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I’d like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Alpha5, the fifth release in the NCP3 cycle. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the Alpha4 release include: * move from Opensolaris b131 to b133 * nexenta-on-source changes [...]

Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I’d like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 alpha3 (and belatedly wish you a great new year!). This is the third release in NCP3 cycle. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the Alpha2 release include: * [...]

The new OpenSolaris website is now live: http://hub.opensolaris.org/. Incoming traffic to the old site is being redirected to the new site. The 1:1 redirects are still being worked, so we will send a separate announcement when they are in place. Refer to the “POST-MIGRATION” section of the content preparations document for things to check on [...]

Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I’d like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 alpha1. This is the first release towards NCP3.0. The main changes over NCP2 include: Move from Opensolaris build 104 to 124. ———————————— >From this release of NCP, all sunw* packages are natively built on Nexenta. [...]

“Sun Microsystems announced the Solaris 10 10/09 Operating System. The Solaris 10 OS has been extended with new performance and power efficiency enhancements, more streamlined management of system installations, updates and fixes, new updates for Solaris ZFS and advancements to further leverage the functionality of the latest SPARC and x86 based systems. Solaris 10 10/09 [...]

While Sun Microsystems puts their weight behind the GNOME desktop environment for Solaris and OpenSolaris, there are developers that do work on providing a quality experience for KDE on OpenSolaris. However, getting KDE to run on a clean OpenSolaris installation can require building KDE from source and taking various other steps. Fortunately, for KDE fans, [...]

Sun is announcing the intent to discontinue production of the Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) by the end of October time-frame. As we intend to continue on a bi-weekly build schedule, consolidations will move towards producing native Image Packaging System (IPS) packages alongside SVR4 packages and then phase out the latter completely. Technologies such as [...]

The pkg(5) team is pleased to announce that a snapshot of the OpenSolaris 2009.06 /release package repository is now available in ISO image form. The contents of the ISO images discussed below can be used to setup a local mirror of the OpenSolaris 2009.06 repository to accelerate zone creation, or for off-line or private network [...]

OpenSolaris 2009.06 Launch Seminar & CommunityOne West Report will be held on June, 19th in Tokyo. Regards, Shoji -=-=-=- Announcement: 2009-06-19 OpenSolaris 2009.06 Launch Seminar -=-=-=-=- Date: June 19th Place: Sun’s Jingumae office in Tokyo. Cost: Free 18:00 – 18:30 Doors open & Drinks 18:30 – 18:35 Introduction : Akira Ohsone 18:35 – 19:20 OpenSolaris [...]

Today marks the release of OpenSolaris 2009.06, the third release of the OpenSolaris Operating System. We’ve shifted gear, bringing you a new set of features right to your door, from the desktop to the data center. For a complete list of what’s new with this release, check out the OpenSolaris 2009.06 What’s New Guide http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/features/whats-new/200906 [...]

Hi, The Nexenta team would like to announce the immediate availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 2 release. Go on to http://www.nexenta.org, and let Nexentaman walk you through what Nexenta provides. ———————- Release Highlights: ———————- * OpenSolaris build 104+ based with critical patches. * Over 13000 packages in the repository, thanks to the autobuilder. * [...]

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… Read more at Phoronix