OpenSolaris

Aug 20, 2008

The LXF Test: OpenSolaris 2008.05

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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 [...]


Aug 2, 2008

Announcing the OpenSolaris Storage Summit

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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 [...]


Jul 31, 2008

OpenSolaris 2008.11 Details

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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…
Read more at Phoronix


Jul 21, 2008

The phpEasyTools for OpenSolaris are ready !

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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 [...]


Jul 19, 2008

BeleniX 0.7.1

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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….
Read more at DistroWatch


Jul 17, 2008

Berlin OpenSolaris User Group: Meeting on 23.07.2008

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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/