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Opensolaris

August 16, 2010 The Battle For OpenSolaris Send by Infostor magazine (blog) All's been quiet on the OpenSolaris front since Oracle's acquisition of Sun, but there's a reason for that. The company has been focused on getting Solaris [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 Illumos Looks To Reopen Oracle's OpenSolaris | Linux.com Send by internetnews.com Amid concern throughout the OpenSolaris community about Oracle's plans for the open source operating system, the Illumos project is providing an alternative set of OpenSolaris technologies. Read more. [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 Opensolaris.org (Main.WebHome) - XWiki Posted by Hellen Popovich Feature Spot: OpenSolaris Caiman Project. The OpenSolaris Caiman Project has been delivering innovations in installation technology to OpenSolaris for over a year. [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 Oracle Shelves OpenSolaris Send by uk.news.yahoo.com Oracle has finally shelved the OpenSolaris development project in a move thathas angered the open source community. [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 Oracle Details Solaris 11, OpenSolaris' Future Shaky Send by [email protected] (Thom Ho While all this development is going on, the OpenSolaris community hasn't been sitting idly by. They are afraid that the lack of communication out of Oracle means OpenSolaris is pretty much a dead end, and as such, they started the [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 Dd If=/dev/random Of=/dev/blog The Final Verdict Is In ... Posted by Hellen Popovich In what is supposedly a leaked internal memo to Oracle staff, the adoptive parent company of Sun's OpenSolaris had announced the fate the project's (and binary release's) future. That is, they will support it no more outside of CDDL'd [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 OpenSolaris Project Is Dead Now Send by Somanshu OpenSolaris project is dead now Oracle continues to take unpopular steps after acquiring Sun Microsystems. They recently filed a patent infringement. [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 Illumos Project - An Alternative Set Of OpenSolaris Technologies Posted by Hellen Popovich The newly launched Illumos Project is aspiring to be the community-built and -maintained version of Oracle's OpenSolaris code. Illumos will be based on OS/Net, a consolidation of the core operating [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 [Phoronix] The OpenSolaris-based Illumos Project Announced Posted by Hellen Popovich Last week we reported on the Illumos project that may be a fork of OpenSolaris coming out of the OpenSolaris community being shafted by Oracle. Not many details were known at that time, but now the Nexenta-sponsored Illumos project has [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 Oracle Kills OpenSolaris, Moves Development Behind Closed Doors Send by osnews.com Well, Oracle went from one of those big enterprise-serving companies most of us don't deal with to one of the more hated companies in our little community. Not only did they just sue Google over Android and its use of Java-related technologies, they also just officially killed off OpenSolaris. Solaris will still be open source, but source code will only come after each major release [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 Oracle Kills OpenSolaris Officially. Unofficially. Icrontic Tech Send by Phillip Jaenke Oracle has yet to publicly admit or state their intentions for OpenSolaris, the open source version of the Solaris operating system. However, a memo leaked earlier today has revealed what's going down. OpenSolaris is officially dead and [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 OpenSolaris Trademark (Main.trademark) - XWiki Posted by Hellen Popovich Trademarks. Solaris and OpenSolaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 OpenSolaris Board In OpenRevolt Against Oracle | Deep Tech - CNET News Posted by Hellen Popovich Governing board that oversees the open-source Solaris community, frustrated by months of 'radio silence' from Oracle, threatens to disband. Read this blog post by Stephen Shankland on Deep Tech. [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 [ug-msosug] Melbourne Solaris / OpenSolaris Users Group - Call To ... Posted by Hellen Popovich [ug-msosug] Melbourne Solaris / OpenSolaris Users Group - Call to Meeting - 18:00, Wednesday August the 18th Lupco Trpeski trpeski at hotmail.com [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 OpenSolaris' Child, Illumos, Goes Forward Without Oracle ... Send by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols With or without Oracle, the OpenSolaris crew, in the form of the new open-source operating system Illumos, is determined to keep their Unix-based operating system going. [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 OpenSolaris Is Dead. - Hardware Posted by Hellen Popovich OpenSolaris is Dead. - What follows is an email sent internally to Oracle Solaris Engineers which describes Oracle's true intentions toward the OpenSolaris project and the future [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 Giovanni Tirloni Blog Archive OpenSolaris Keyboard ... Send by gtirloni After updating OpenSolaris to b145, I discovered my keyboard layout (ABNT2) wasn't working. My first reaction was to inspect /etc/default/kbd but that file doesn't exist anymore. Searching through the onnv-gate repository for 'kbd', [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 Oracle Signals An End To OpenSolaris - NewsPlurk Send by Typed ROBIN Daily Dose - Leaked Memo Suggests an End to OpenSolaris. A blogger has leaked what is believed to be an internal Oracle memo about the future of OpenSolaris and Solaris 11. The key quote from the memo states: "We. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 The Nexenta Planet OpenSolaris No More And Nexenta? Posted by Hellen Popovich We are already seeing hundreds of new customers that are experienced with OpenSolaris for storage ? and we welcome these customers with open arms. NexentaStor can address your storage needs better than OpenSolaris ever could, [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 OpenSolaris - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Posted by Hellen Popovich OpenSolaris (pronounced /?o?.p?nso??la?.ris/) was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris created by Sun Microsystems, now a part of Oracle Corporation. [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 Re: RIP OpenSolaris :: Reply By Aoeuhtns12345 Posted by Hellen Popovich I'm sorry but that's the big oracle story you're covering? Don't get me wrong, it's important and you give a good account. But after years of telling us how using mono was so risky because microsoft would eventually sue a bunch of people and shut it down and we should use technologies committed to o [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 OpenSolaris Download | Operating System Download | Get OpenSolaris Posted by Hellen Popovich Download OpenSolaris ISO image and virtual disk image. Live CD makes it simple to boot to a fully functional desktop environment. [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 BigAdmin - OpenSolaris: Hardware Compatibility List Posted by Hellen Popovich The BigAdmin Solaris Hardware Compatibility List. [...] OpenSolaris 2009.06 - now ready for the Enterprise with full support for latest SPARC and x86 systems. Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 William Yang: The Future Of OpenSolaris Send by William Yang The clouds of uncertainty over OpenSolaris under Oracle have parted, but while what we see behind them was perhaps expected, it is certainly still disappointing. I've included the original sources below, but here are the key sentences [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 16, 2010 Oracle Signals An End To OpenSolaris - CIO.com Send by James Niccolai Oracle appeared to confirm this week what many in the computer industry already suspected: The OpenSolaris project is dead. [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

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