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The H Open: "As it had previously threatened, the OpenSolaris Governance Board (OGB) has now resigned."
ars Technica: "The bad news is that Oracle plans to discontinue Sun's community-centric OpenSolaris distribution."
Cyber Cynic: "OK, I tried to resist but I can't help myself: I told you so."
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/blog: "In what is supposedly a leaked internal memo to Oracle staff, the adoptive parent company of Sun's OpenSolaris had announced the fate the project's (and binary release's) future. That is, they will support it no more outside of CDDL'd package updates for future Solaris (i.e. Solaris 11) releases."
Computerworld: "Nexenta proclaims this "is a 100% community-driven and -owned effort that aims to provide an alternative to a critical part of the OpenSolaris distribution, freeing it from dependence on Oracle's good will.""
Cyber Cynic: "Good-bye OpenSolaris. It's been fun knowing you. Unfortunately for you, it's become all too clear that your new parent company, Oracle doesn't want a thing to do with you."
Computerworld UK: "At a meeting with an unusually large number of community observers, we discussed how to respond to the 100% radio silence the OGB has experienced from the new owners of the OpenSolaris copyright and infrastructure."
The H Open: "In an act of desperation, the OpenSolaris governing board (OGB) has issued an ultimatum to Oracle."
Free Software Magazine: "When we think of free operating systems we tend to think overwhelmingly of the big hitters (all GNU/Linux) like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and Mandriva and then of those niche distros that have been designed for low end systems or for specialist purposes like security and forensics. But Oranges are not the only fruit"
Enterprise Storage Forum: "While Sun Microsystems may have struggled with making money from its OpenSolaris operating system prior to Sun's acquisition by Oracle, that doesn't mean that others haven't had better success."
Desktop Linux Reviews: "Why do a review of OpenSolaris? Well why the heck not? It's always fun to check out a different kind of desktop operating system. Sometimes you can find an unexpected jewel when you least expect it."
Serverwatch: "If Oracle's recent Solaris licensing changes have you singing the blues, OpenSolaris might provide you with a fresh tune to whistle while you work."
Wine-Reviews: "Today I thought I would show everyone just how easy it is to install and use Microsoft Office 2007 on OpenSolaris 2009.06 and 2010.03 with Bordeaux for Solaris. I have installed Office 2007 on both OpenSolaris 2009.06 and 2010.03"
Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris: "Article bellow tries to explain that due to efforts of Jan Beulich and Andy Lyon xenified aka Suse Kernel 2.6.31.8(9) may be built on any Linux and along with the most recent stable Xen Hypervisor"
Phoronix: "We have now extended that comparison to put many other operating systems in a direct performance comparison to these Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/kFreeBSD snapshots of 6.0 Squeeze to Fedora 12, FreeBSD 7.2, FreeBSD 8.0, OpenBSD 4.6, and OpenSolaris 2009.06."
Wine-Reviews: "The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.0 for Solaris today. Bordeaux 2.0.0 marks major progress over older releases. With version 2.0.0 and onward we bundle our own Wine build and many tools and libraries that Wine depends upon."
Phoronix: "With the stable release of FreeBSD 8.0 arriving last week we finally were able to put it up on the test bench and give it a thorough look over with the Phoronix Test Suite. We compared the FreeBSD 8.0 performance between it and the earlier FreeBSD 7.2 release along with Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10 on the Linux side and then the OpenSolaris 2010.02 b127 snapshot on the Sun OS side."
Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris: "Setup xvm per Sun the most recent instructions. As appears latter Virt-Manager is broken in 126 ( vs 124), but this is not the worst thing supposed to happen."
Flexsense: "The purpose of the benchmark is to compare the performance of NAS software bundled with server operating systems on an identical hardware platform using a highly diversified set of file read, write, search, analysis and delete operations."
TuxRadar: "Like Mac OS X, which we looked at recently, OpenSolaris is based on Unix; also like OS X, it's best known for running on a specific processor (in this case Sun's SPARC architecture) but now works on a range of architectures including x86. Unlike OS X though, OpenSolaris is open source, so you can download it for free and start fiddling with it."
An anonymous reader writes "With Sun busy being swallowed up by Oracle, should Linux geeks pay any interest to OpenSolaris? TuxRadar put together a guide to OpenSolaris's most interesting features from a Linux user's perspective, covering how to get started with ZFS and virtualisation alongside more consumer-friendly topics such as hardware and Flash support."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Phoronix: "In this article we have results comparing OpenSolaris 2009.06 and Ubuntu 9.04 on the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook."
Cyber Cynic: "So, what does a Linux company like Oracle wants to do with its newly purchased Sun's open-source operating system, OpenSolaris? The answer appears to be: "Nothing.""
Serverwatch: "As it comes closer to becoming reality, Oracle's purchase of Sun makes more sense, for the simple reason that there is plenty of good technology in Sun -- like Java -- that Oracle can put to good use. But what is Oracle going to do with its newly acquired OSes?"
IT Wire: "OpenSolaris came out with its third release last week and within a year there seems to have been some pretty good progress. But with the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle earlier this year, the biggest question hanging over OpenSolaris is whether Oracle will decide to continue with the project"
Tech Broiler: "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."
l2admin: "Well I have just finished deploying a solution like this for a large web server farm and thought it would be nice to share what we did and how it worked with the larger community."
ComputerWeekly: "Sun Microsystems has boosted networking and performance in the latest version of OpenSolaris, by including Project Crossbow from the Solaris operating system."
InternetNews: "Sun Microsystems today announced a major new update to its OpenSolaris operating system. Technically called OpenSolaris 2009.06, the new release includes enhanced networking, virtualization and storage capabilities for the open source operating system."