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OpenIndiana launches
The OpenIndiana distribution of OpenSolaris has announced
its existence. "Lastly, we intend to enhance the OpenSolaris
operating system's ease of use, such that Linux users can make the
transition with as little pain as possible. Key examples of how we intend
to do this include making far more free and open source software available
for our distribution, working with 3rd party software projects so they
compile out of the box on Solaris, and providing excellent, easy to
understand documentation. We also believe OpenSolaris excels as a server
platform, with enterprise features found in no other operating system, such
as the ZFS filesystem, Zones, the Service Management Framework, the Fault
Management system, the COMSTAR iSCSI/FCoE framework, and the Crossbow
virtualised network stack. Combined with bug and security fixes, our stable
branch will provide one of the best free server operating systems available
on the market."
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OpenIndiana launches Posted Sep 15, 2010 19:22 UTC (Wed) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link]
More details about where it stays with respect to Illumos and Solaris: http://wiki.openindiana.org:8080/display/oi/Frequently+As...
OpenIndiana launches Posted Sep 16, 2010 9:13 UTC (Thu) by cliffw (guest, #45880) [Link]
Ah, hope springs eternal.....
Why??? Posted Sep 23, 2010 16:20 UTC (Thu) by stevem (subscriber, #1512) [Link]
I'm astonished that people want to continue wasting time on opensolaris. They've had the rug pulled from under them totally by the people at Oracle, yet they still want to waste their time, continuing to try keeping binary compatible with Oracle releases. Get the message already, people!
I'm also a little taken aback to see an "open" project using a non-free wiki engine!
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