Review Sun has made good on its promise to deliver OpenSolaris, the company's Unix-based answer to Linux, with a company-supported, commercial update arriving in mid-May. Although far from a complete ...

If you were hoping that someone would fork the OpenSolaris operating system, you are going to have to settle for a spork. You know, half spoon and half fork. That, in essence, is what the Illumos, an ...

Sun and OpenSolaris.org on Monday released the first publicly available version of the OpenSolaris operating system since work on the project began in 2005. The operasting system, which is a single ...

The June 2009 (2009.06) release of OpenSolaris provides a solid Open Source GNOME desktop experience like that of a modern Linux distribution combined with the scalability and stability of UNIX. Over ...

According to Sun officials, OpenSolaris is the first operating system with ZFS as its default file system. Its advantages include built-in rollback, the use of checksums and redundancy to ...

Sun Microsystems is touting the growth of its one-year-old open source project OpenSolaris, indicating the open code effort for its formerly closed Solaris operating system has drawn thousands of ...

Dennis Clarke once collected cars, but gave it all up for open-source Solaris. A year ago, he took $13,000 in exchange for the last of his collection — a red 1989 Corvette — to pay for bandwidth on ...

The OpenSolaris project, which has been slowly gaining momentum over the past year, issued its first official release last week. Designed with an emphasis on usability and easy installation, ...

Sun’s OpenSolaris platform aims to supply a user-friendly desktop distribution of the open source Solaris operating system. The third major OpenSolaris release, version 2009.06, was made available ...

Sun has reached an agreement with Toshiba to pre-install the OpenSolaris operating system on Toshiba laptops. The laptops will be available in the US from early 2009 and will come with the latest ...

Sun and the OpenSolaris community are launching Monday the official first version of the open-source OpenSolaris operating system, which has only been available in pre-release versions for developers ...