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- Will OpenSolaris survive Oracle?
- We can only hope so! It would make a much better back end than what linux has to offer. Solaris has always been a solid performer and is a real UNIX, not some hacked up clone like linux. The best option for Oracle would be to ditch linux...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Sun Solaris, Oracle Corp., OpenSolaris, Open Solaris
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Will OpenSolaris survive Oracle?
- It's pretty clear that the programming of a few little features don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy software world. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Software, OpenSolaris, Oracle Corp., Tools & Techniques, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Quick thoughts on the (possible) demise of OpenSolaris
- Quick thoughts on the possible demise of OpenSolarisWhere's the news?All I see here is a blog post from someone who says that people working on OpenSolaris are worried about the future. What else is new?Above and beyond that, the post is pure speculation. He's afraid OpenSolaris is going to "die...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, OpenSolaris, Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-13
- Quick thoughts on the (possible) demise of OpenSolaris
- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes that the "writing is on the wall. OpenSolaris is on its way out." Is it really? And what does that mean for the FOSS landscape? It makes more sense for Oracle to fully embrace Linux. A well-organized transition from Solaris/OpenSolaris to Linux --...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Oracle Corp., Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- OpenSolaris 2009.06 Desktop Experience (OpenSolaris 2009.06 Release)
- OpenSolaris 2009.06 Desktop Experience (OpenSolaris 2009.06 Release)Might be worth a look...This OS might be worth a look. Where did I put that extra 500GB hard drive I had laying around...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, OpenSolaris 2009.06 Desktop Experience, OpenSolaris 2009.06 Release
- Discussion threads 2009-06-09
- OpenSolaris 2009.06 Release
- Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris June 2009 release boasts a number of significant usability and performance improvements. by Jason Perlow
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Solaris, Sun, Oracle, Open Source, Linux, Jason Perlow
- Image galleries 2009-06-08
- OpenSolaris 2009.06: Getting Better All The Time
- OpenSolaris 2009.06: Getting Better All The TimeWatch Out Microsoft: Coming at ya from all sides!Nobody can tell me otherwise, OpenSolaris is a thing of beauty--ZFS, ZFS Slider, Dtrace, Containers, GNOME Nimbus interface, xVM Hypervisor LDOMS, and new CrossBar Network Virtualization.There's some serious $hit going on here I wish were in...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, OpenSolaris, OpenSolaris 2009.06, software, Getting Better
- Discussion threads 2009-06-07
- OpenSolaris 2009.06: Getting Better All The Time
- 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 the weekend, I had the chance to take a look at Sun...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Sun Solaris, OpenSolaris 2009.06, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-07
- Frugal Friday: Palm Pre, OpenSolaris, Bing, OOMA
- In this installment of Frugal Friday, fellow techie and former Palm afficionado Scott Raymond and I discuss the Palm Pre, the new OpenSolaris 2009.06 release, Microsoft's Bing decision engine, and interview Rich Buchanan, Chief Marketing Officer of the OOMA Voice over IP service. ...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Palm Inc., Podcasts, Internet, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Using ZFS Snapshots With Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL on OpenSolaris 2008.11 OS
- The objective of this paper is to show how to deploy Zmanda Recovery Manager 3.0 for MySQL on the OpenSolaris 2008.11 OS and how ZRM performs on a Sun Fire X4500 system using the ZFS file system. In particular this paper demonstrates how ZRM takes advantage of ZFS snapshot technology...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Data Protection, MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Disaster Recovery, Backups, Open Source, Databases, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-05-01
- What happens for Linux if IBM does buy Sun?
- Rumor has it, IBM is looking at buying Sun. No surprise that we're seeing consolidation in a down market, but will this mean consolidation in the open source space? I'll let others speculate on the affect it might have on the hardware market, but I'm curious what...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Crossbow's golden arrows
- Sun's Project Crossbow, now in the OpenSolaris code base, separates physical network interfaces from the OS code accessing that hardware - meaning superficially that it virtualizes networks, more substantively that OpenSolaris on AMD can now compete with Cisco/IOS at 10 cents on the Cisco dollar - and more deeply that...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Network, Sun Microsystems Inc., Network Interface, Crossbow, Networking, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- Sun upgrades OpenSolaris, signs OEM deal with Toshiba
- Sun upgrades OpenSolaris, signs OEM deal with ToshibaSmolt?: Is vendor optimism for Linux and OpenSolaris warranted?[url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/11/a-call-to-all-linux-users-be-counted-with-smolt.html]o A Call to All Linux Users: Be counted with Smolt[/url]o [url=http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/opensuse_participates_in_smolt_hardware_profiler]OpenSUSE Participates in Smolt Hardware Profiler[/url]The Linux estimate 0.83% is questionable and most likely grossly understated.Smolt, developed by the Fedora community, attempts to get...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Toshiba Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Smolt Hardware Profiler, OpenSolaris
- Discussion threads 2008-12-11
- Sun upgrades OpenSolaris, signs OEM deal with Toshiba
- The flurry of recent Linux PC announcements illustrates renewed hope that the open source desktop has a better shot in this economic climate. Sun is hoping its own open source Unix desktop has better prospects, too. On Wednesday, Sun announced an upgrade of its OpenSolaris...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Toshiba Corp., Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- Can Linux and Solaris be married?
- Nexenta its symbol is a giraffe combines the OpenSolaris kernel with Userland, the open source filesystem. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Nexenta, Linux, Sun Solaris, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- What drives customer demand for Solaris/x86? Fear of failure
- I think the short answer to "what happened to growth in the OpenSolaris community" is Ian Murdock; but the longer answer is that growth continues but enthusiasm lags and the commercial applications market has become more a defensive one than a leading edge one. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Growth, Paul Murphy, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel X86, Sun Sparc, Systems Story, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Processors, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- And speaking of Sun Microsystems
- And speaking of Sun MicrosystemsOpenSolaris is still unfit for the desktop, thoughI have tried several versions of Sun's OpenSolaris on my desktop, and they were all disappointing. Both in usability and in hardware support.As fine as some Sun products may be for some purposes, OpenSolaris definitely still needs a lot...
- Tags: Desktops, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Using JMaki With PHP on OpenSolaris
- OpenSolaris is an Operating System OS, an open source project, and a community. The project's goals are innovation, collaboration, and the extension of OpenSolaris technologies such as Solaris OS, Sun's fully supported and tested enterprise operating system, as well as participation in the development of OpenSolaris releases and distributions. Recently,...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Operating System, PHP, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2008-06-16
- I swear, this is not another Unixfication post
- Photo: Jeff Bonwick and Linus Torvalds I was resolved not to write another Unixfication story until I had more concrete news of Sun and Linus actually working together, and filed it away under "Maybe". Like many of the speculative peices I write, it...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-18
- What's wrong at OpenSolaris
- What's wrong at OpenSolarisAgreed as to gaols etcHowever.. look at junknstuff's response above to see how the MS community has chosen to interpret what's going on.Now ask yourself: wouldn't everyone - especially Sun - have been better off if Sun had spent the money bringing Linux along instead of...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
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