created by Sun Microsystems and based on Solaris. Its development began in the mid 2000s and ended in 2010. OpenSolaris was developed as a combination of several...
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in 2010, the OpenSolaris distribution was discontinued and later discontinued providing public updates to the source code of the Solaris kernel, effectively...
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise's HP-UX and Oracle's Solaris, plus the free-software illumos forked from OpenSolaris. System V was the successor to 1982's UNIX...
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ZFS (section Commercial and open source products)
Microsystems Solaris operating system in 2001. Large parts of Solaris, including ZFS, were published under an open source license as OpenSolaris for around...
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Java Desktop System (redirect from OpenSolaris Desktop)
Java Desktop System, briefly known as OpenSolaris Desktop, is a legacy desktop environment developed first by Sun Microsystems and then by Oracle Corporation...
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Illumos (category OpenSolaris)
core Solaris engineers to create a truly open source Solaris, by swapping closed source bits of OpenSolaris with open implementations. OpenSolaris itself...
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Oracle was no longer supporting all the development of an open version of Solaris, the OpenSolaris Governing Board disbanded shortly after this was revealed...
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File attribute (section OpenSolaris and derivatives)
to OpenSolaris in 2007 in support of the CIFS server. It has been carried forward from there into both the Oracle Solaris 11 releases and the open source...
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Technical variations of Solaris distributions include support for different hardware devices and systems or software package configurations. Organizational...
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Oracle Corporation (category OpenCorporates groupings)
ending the OpenSolaris operating system project and community. With Oracle planning to develop Solaris only in a closed source fashion, OpenSolaris developers...
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GNU variants (redirect from GNU/OpenSolaris)
userland (with the exception of libc; OpenSolaris' libc is used) and Debian's packaging and organisation with the OpenSolaris kernel. Nexenta OS is available...
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Common Development and Distribution License (category Free and open-source software licenses)
conference, that the engineers who had written the Solaris kernel requested that the license of OpenSolaris be GPL-incompatible. Mozilla was selected partially...
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developed in open with contributing Opensolaris community through SXCE that used SVR4 .pkg packaging and supported OpenSolaris releases that used IPS. Following...
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Realtek cards Kerneltrap for the list of OpenBSD drivers The OpenSolaris website for the list of OpenSolaris and Solaris drivers https://web.archive...
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x86-64 based computers. The project began in 2010, forked from OpenSolaris after OpenSolaris was discontinued by Oracle Corporation, and is hence descended...
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Solaris operating system. The ZFS source code was released in 2005 under the Common Development and Distribution License as part of the OpenSolaris operating...
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Wayback Machine "OpenSolaris FAQ: Does the OpenSolaris project include source code for both the SPARC and x64/x86 architectures?". Opensolaris.org. 26 October...
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build 51 beta of Solaris 10, and subsequently in the first full release of Solaris 10, 2005. It is present in illumos (formerly OpenSolaris) distributions...
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List of live CDs (section OpenSolaris-based)
Illumos: Nexenta OS – combines the GNU userland with the OpenSolaris kernel. OpenIndiana – since OpenIndiana 151a based on Illumos AmigaOS 4 – Installable...
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Oracle ZFS (category Formerly open-source or free software)
from other non-proprietary Solaris-based distributions, it is recommended to upgrade to Solaris 11 Express from OpenSolaris (snv_134b), and thereby stay...
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based on Solaris, which was originally released by Sun Microsystems in 1991. Sun released the bulk of the Solaris system source code in OpenSolaris on 14...
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kernel for labeled security environments. Solaris Trusted Extensions was included in the OpenSolaris project. Solaris Trusted Extensions, when enabled, enforces...
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Unix (redirect from Open Group Base Specification)
by Ken and me and many others, many years ago". OpenSolaris was the free software counterpart to Solaris developed by Sun Microsystems, which included a...
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redundant copy is available. Created by Sun Microsystems for use on Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris, ported to FreeBSD 7.0, NetBSD (as of August 2009), Linux and...
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purchased by Sun in 2001. Sun released the SAM-QFS source code to the OpenSolaris project in March 2008. After Oracle acquired Sun, Oracle continued to...
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Originally developed for Solaris, it has since been released under the free Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) in OpenSolaris and its descendant...
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Solaris network virtualization and resource control is a set of features originally developed by Sun Microsystems as the OpenSolaris Crossbow umbrella...
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Rust) OpenSolaris illumos, contains original Unix (SVR4) code derived from the OpenSolaris (discontinued by Oracle in favor of Solaris 11 Express) OpenIndiana...
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security-focused operating systems such as NSA's Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux), OpenSolaris FMAC and TrustedBSD. This means that SELinux can be thought of as an...
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BeleniX (category OpenSolaris)
BeleniX is a discontinued operating system distribution built using the OpenSolaris source base. It can be used as a Live CD as well as installed to a hard...
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