I tested OpenSolaris earlier this year shortly after the developers announced the project’s first official release. Although I was impressed with the ease of installation and several other aspects of ...

A group of open source software developers working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have implemented a native Linux port of Sun’s ZFS filesystem. Although the code is functional and ...

It seems like only yesterday that I read Jeff Bonwick's blog entry "ZFS: The Last Word in Filesystems". It was Halloween of 2005 that ZFS was fully integrated into Sun Microsystem's Solaris, and the ...

Sun Microsystems has released the source code for its OpenSolaris file system, a major component of its server operating system. As part of a "build," or update, to OpenSolaris, the company on ...

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 Inc. Thursday announced several open-source milestones, adding support for the PostgreSQL database on its Solaris 10 OS and unveiling new technologies in OpenSolaris, including a next ...

After a three-year incubation period, Sun’s long promised OpenSolaris, the third open source variant of Unix, was officially delivered Monday. "It's the first Opensolaris operating system that's fully ...

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 ...