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, ...

It has been about six months since I tried out openSolaris 2008.11, and since then they have released their 2009.06 version. Time for another look! Download the LiveCD from the above address, and burn ...

I have an existing Opensolaris machine with an extra partition that has an XP install already created. I have since made a motherboard upgrade which causes XP to fault on startup and have been very ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sun has released the first fruits of a new, more Linux-like attempt to make something useful from its open-source Solaris effort. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Sun Microsystems and the OpenSolaris community it created a few years ago have officially released the Unix-based OpenSolaris operating system into the wild. The two organizations shared the news at ...

Oracle may have dealt a blow last month to businesses relying on the free OpenSolaris operating system, but a new contender has recently emerged that’s designed to be a fully compatible drop-in ...