Goodbye to OpenSolaris
OpenSolaris no more
The rumor was confirmed. When Oracle bought Sun, some feared for the continuance of OpenSolaris. A few months ago a change in the license revived these fears, and now finally been confirmed in an internal memo from Oracle.
The good side of the news is that this will not mean not to free software development by Oracle, or the end of a free version of Solaris. Say, the politics of open source, licensed under the CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License, incompatible with the GPL), will continue as before, and continue to contribute to other free software projects like GNOME, Perl or Apache.
As for the free version, Oracle Solaris 11 Express intended to replace the OpenSolaris systems with a free license and optional support. The idea is that eventually these systems will migrate to Solaris 11, which itself will pay.
This decision Oracle also has its bad side. Now, all the open source Solaris will only be accessible through an internal network, which have access only approved customers. This means that, even despite being mostly free, will only see certain people Solaris code. Truly a loss, because with OpenSolaris anyone could see and explore all that much code. Read more
Nexenta CP 3.0, the latest release based on OpenSolaris
The people of Nexenta has made available its new community Nexenta Core Platform v3.0 release, which should be the latest release of OpenSolaris based Nexenta.
Among the features in this release : Based on the latest version of OpenSolaris, ZFS new functionality, more software in the repositories, support SMF and 100% compatible Debian environment.
4.0 Transition to Nexenta CP
The transition to what Nexenta Core Platform v4.0 will be made in two phases. The first phase, already put to work, is to replace OpenSolaris as a base, transitioning to Illume . This will involve the release of Nexenta CP 3.9.
The second phase will migrate from the current user space Ubuntu Hardy LTS, to a more modern environment based on a recent version of Ubuntu or Debian. This will involve the release of Nexenta CP 4.0.
OpenSolaris falls, Illume arises
In recent days has shown selfless Oracle for the future of OpenSolaris, which has not sat well with the community. Failing that Oracle's response to community concerns, some developers from Nexenta Illume has created the project.
It involves using all possible open source Solaris, and create an open source replacement for pieces that are not. This will create a base operating system, not to create a new distribution, but to serve as the basis for current projects based on OpenSolaris (Nexenta, BeleniX, etc).
Initial goals include being able to develop Illume from the operating system itself, be totally open source, binary compatibility with Solaris, not conflict legal users have no business premises, and eventually be the basis for other distributions.
OpenSolaris 2010.03 is delayed
Oracle no hurry to bring the public the new release of Sun's Unix built for years and then released in source code and specifications. Oracle does not contribute to open source or sponsor that Sun Microsystems as well protected and promoted feudal lord. Simon Phipps has been fired from Larry Ellison's company after 5 years of Chief Open Source Officer. The consequences of the merger acquisition behave as instructed causes: possession of an innovative company was profitable but not as mandated by the financial market and destroy everything that is not readily convertible to bullion software hard cash.
Only the community of OpenSolaris OpenSolaris save!
Unix BSD, Darwin Unix, Unix Solaris
DistroWatch.com estimated the occurrence of FreeBSD 8.0 for mid / late August 2009, no performance improvements are anticipated as remarkable as the output of FreeBSD 7 in late 2007 although they are incorporating additives (compiler LLVM / CLANG, USB stack , ULE scheduler 3.0, ARM support, virtual WiFi, optimized for Core i7, jails v2) to the new product.
On the other hand ask anyone who knows in Cupertino or the rest of the web over the face of the earth if one day Darwin ( PureDarwin and in tune with GRUB2 ) Coreserver incorporated as the familiar and well-built FreeBSD 7 or 8, with the output of I guess Darwin Snow Leopard release 10, but is not there more recent work sponsored by FreeBSD Foundation .
Finally anoticiado that OpenSolaris has already been ported to ARM cores will now runs beyond Windows Mobile, iPhone OS 3, Ubuntu and Android for Intel Atom ¿quagmire and Via Nano? Back can come to know more systems that run VirtualBox.
Βeta2 NexentaCore Platform 2.0
OpenSolaris build104 + Symbiosis and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (replacing Debian) to gain support for hardware, can now use apt-clone from Zetta Filesystem to install, manage, update applications Sun / Linux compatible (13000 packages in the repository). A GNU with Solaris kernel but he seems to Linux.
File. Iso.zip to burn or virtualize >>>>>>
Toshiba laptops with OpenSolaris works
Sun has announced plans to collaborate with Toshiba from which arise to develop at least two laptops with OpenSolaris operating system.
For now we only know the existence of this development, but no details of dates and prices. It awaits.
Source: vnunet.es
OpenSolaris 2008.11 is now available for download.
Finally sees the light of the final version of the free branch of Solaris. Here we can enjoy the IPS packaging system and ZFS file system in all its glory. We can find a livecd to try it here and install it if we are convinced, according to Sun, with very little effort.
More information www.opensolaris.com
Ubuntu vs. Vs. OpenSolaris. FreeBSD Benchmarks
The Phoronix guys are that are out.
Do not get me wrong 
after publishing his suite for "benchmarks" version 1.4 which I recommend you try (in time), are conducting a number of benchkmarks Ubuntu systems above and comparing the results with other distributions.
In this case it is up to Ubuntu 8.10, OpenSolaris 2008.11 and FreeBSD 7.1 Can the BSD and new and beneficial changes in version 7 with the latest advances in Linux?
Ubuntu 8.10 will be able to deal with a product as solid as OpenSolaris 2008.11 and zfs?
You have the answers to these questions and others:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=os_threeway_2008&num=1
OpenSolaris on IBM mainframes
A joint effort of IBM and Sun has made it possible to bring the OpenSolaris operating system to large IBM mainframes.
The business of the Mainframe is still important to IBM, and now give you the possibility to use a new operating system on their machines. In addition to its proprietary systems, Linux and OpenSolaris are now an option.
Since Sun is also working to bring Java to the new platform, but until 2010 not available. This will bring software from companies like Oracle or SAP to the new proposal SystemZ / OpenSolaris.
Source: vnunet.es
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