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Oracle Solaris 11

[Posted November 16, 2011 by ris]

Oracle has announced the release of Oracle Solaris 11. "Oracle Solaris 11 is designed to meet the security, performance and scalability requirements of cloud-based deployments allowing customers to run their most demanding enterprise applications in private, hybrid, or public clouds." See the release notes for more information.

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Oracle Solaris 11

Posted Nov 17, 2011 10:27 UTC (Thu) by migpc (guest, #24484) [Link]

With all due respect, why is Oracle Soralis 11 in the LWN Distributions page?.

It's neither free nor Linux. Just like HP/UX or AiX.

Oracle Solaris 11

Posted Nov 18, 2011 16:17 UTC (Fri) by juliank (subscriber, #45896) [Link]

Free: AFAIK, source code for Solaris 11 has been made available, so it's almost in the same position as Android in terms of development style. They push out the binaries and then make available the source code under CDDL (and other) terms.

Linux: Well, right, it's not Linux. But still interesting to know. Given that the same is done for other non-Linux things (such as Minix), that doesn't seem a reason to not do it.