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	OpenSolaris Has a Leg Up on Linux
		Solaris, the source of the OpenSolaris code, has a large existing base of customers that use the operating system in everything from network servers that support the Internet to the massive servers that produce your credit card statements.
		OpenSolaris provides the same flexibility and capability to produce distributions that we have with Linux.
		With OpenSolaris, we are already at the small end of standardization.
	www.computerworld.com /printthis/2005/0,4814,105786,00.html (699 words)

	OpenSolaris Governance - Genunix
		OpenSolaris communities are self-governed by a meritocratic system wherein sustained contributions lead to decision-making authority and responsibility for continuous community development.
		OpenSolaris uses a similar set of development guidelines and decision-making processes as Apache, though with some changes to better match the existing Solaris engineering culture and compensate for the lack of a separate nonprofit foundation.
		Each OpenSolaris community shall select from among their core developers an individual to be the current CAB liaison for that community (an alternate should be selected during times when that individual is unavailable).
	www.genunix.org /wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_Governance (5372 words)

	The Unix Guardian--OpenSolaris: One Year Down, Participation Up
		The OpenSolaris project that Sun Microsystems created to foster a development community around its Solaris variant of the Unix operating system is celebrating its first birthday this week--assuming you call a birthday the day that source code was actually made available to developers to play with.
		OpenSolaris is not a commercial operating system that is meant to be deployed in the data centers and the departments of the world, but rather a means for companies, academic institutions, government agencies, and individuals to participate in the creation of future Solaris releases and versions.
		OpenSolaris also has 30 user groups worldwide, and 32 universities are using OpenSolaris in their curriculum (the target was 10 universities, by the way).
	www.itjungle.com /tug/tug061506-story01.html (1145 words)

	Breaking News--OpenSolaris Community Opens for Business
		The code base that is being distributed through OpenSolaris is a tweaked version of the code base that Sun froze when it released its Solaris 10 operating system at the end of January when it launched that commercial product, which has had over 1.7 million downloads as of this week.
		The OpenSolaris that was released today includes the core kernel, the network stack, the system libraries, the Solaris command, and key new features of Solaris 10 such as DTrace, Solaris container virtual partitions, and predictive self-healing features; it is missing features such as the Solaris installer and administration features.
		OpenSolaris expects to have some form of source code management system in place within 3 to 6 months, workflow tools to manage patch submissions and such a few months after that, and a more refined development process within 9 to 12 months.
	www.itjungle.com /breaking/bn061405-story01.html (1334 words)

	Happy Birthday OpenSolaris
		The Open Solaris initiative itself was formally launched in January of 2005, thought the first code drop and 'opening' of the project occurred on June 14, 2005.
		In the same period there have been over 33,000 downloads of OpenSolaris source code though that figure is likely to be inaccurate since it is difficult to properly track P2P client (such as BitTorrent) download and mirror site downloads with a high degree of accuracy.
		In the case of Nexanta, the OpenSolaris kernel is added to a Debian GNU/Linux core derived from the Ubuntu Linux project.
	www.internetnews.com /dev-news/article.php/3613241 (794 words)

	Sun Raises Curtain On OpenSolaris Effort - News by InformationWeek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sun released the first component of its OpenSolaris initiative, but most of the open-source operating system won't be available until midyear.
		Solaris 10, which OpenSolaris will be based on, is scheduled to be available for download at the end of this month.
		OpenSolaris will be released under the Community Development and Distribution License, which requires that developers who modify the open-source code share their changes with the rest of the community.
	www.informationweek.com /story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=57703872 (770 words)

	OpenSolaris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		OpenSolaris is an open source project created by Sun Microsystems to build a developer community around the Solaris Operating System technology.
		OpenSolaris is derived from the Unix System V Release 4 codebase, though much of it has been modified since originally licensed by Sun for technical reasons.
		The five CAB members were announced on April 4, 2005: two were elected by the pilot community, two were appointed by Sun, and one was appointed from the broader free software community by Sun.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/OpenSolaris (750 words)

	Home at OpenSolaris.org
		The OpenSolaris project is an open source community and a place for collaboration and conversation around OpenSolaris technology.
		The OpenSolaris source code is already cutting edge, but innovation happens everywhere so we welcome your involvement.
		The OpenSolaris project, where server and operating system maker Sun Microsystems has taken its Solaris 10 Unix variant open source, has received an endowment of storage-related code, which it will make open source as well.
	www.opensolaris.org (738 words)

	Solaris engineers offer personal source-code tours \| Tech News on ZDNet
		The ambassadors are dozens of Sun programmers who published blog entries for the OpenSolaris launch, sharing personal stories from deep within the Solaris project.
		Though OpenSolaris is dominated by Sun programmers, the site has adopted a voice that distances the project from its founding company.
		OpenSolaris will feature frequent releases--a method similar to what Linux seller Red Hat established in 2003 with its Fedora project.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-3513_22-5746834.html (1249 words)

	Summer of Code - Genunix
		Background: Demoing OpenSolaris can be cumbersome if the user has to walk through an install to get to it, or would have trouble getting to an OpenSolaris system in order to experiment with what they've just been shown.
		This package could then be added to any LiveCD distribution of OpenSolaris, so that the OS will be running while the viewer is watching the demo, and the viewer could play along with the demo, or otherwise explore the system.
		A Linux Capability to OpenSolaris privileges(5) compatibility library: There is an almost 1:1 mapping between Linux Capbilities and OpenSolaris privileges(5), a userland compatibility library would help the porting of privilege aware applications from Linux to Solaris and would also help the BrandZ project for running Linux applications on Solaris.
	www.genunix.org /wiki/index.php/Summer_of_Code (2060 words)

	OpenSolaris Turns One
		From June 14, 2005 to June 13, 2006 Sun claims the OpenSolaris community has garnered more than14,000 members of which 1,500 are actually Sun employees.
		That said, contributions by the community back into OpenSolaris represents one of the largest challenges that the project faces according to Ratcliffe.
		One such example that caught Ratcliffe by surprise was an effort by the community to port OpenSolaris to IBM's POWER architecture.
	www.serverwatch.com /news/article.php/3613726 (954 words)

	Sun Launches OpenSolaris Project - Software Technology News by TechWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		OpenSolaris is based on a subset of the source code for Solaris, which powers computer servers used to run business applications.
		The major difference between Solaris and OpenSolaris is that the latter does not provide an end-user product or complete distribution.
		The OpenSolaris community will provide support, and decisions within the project will be made independently from Sun's business.
	www.techweb.com /wire/software/164303044 (573 words)

	Sun begins open-source Solaris era \| Tech News on ZDNet
		And OpenSolaris isn't doomed as an open-source project simply because it has been Sun's proprietary, in-house project.
		It released a component called DTrace in January that enabled detailed performance analysis; attracted 150 outside programmers to an OpenSolaris pilot program; and established a five-person community advisory board, two of whom are from Sun.
		OpenSolaris or other CDDL code may be used in proprietary projects or in open-source projects covered by CDDL and several other licenses, including BSD and Mozilla licenses, Goguen said.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-3513_22-5745120.html (1127 words)

	Embedded Solaris on PowerPC
		Sun Labs jump-started the project in collaboration with the OpenSolaris PowerPC Polaris project community of developers on opensolaris.org, aiming to open up new business opportunities for developers and eventually, new markets.
		The availability of OpenSolaris on PowerPC could therefore offer customers a compelling value proposition: run your critical, sensitive embedded applications on the world's most mature, secure, and trusted operating system -- without sacrificing performance -- and build on the capabilities inherent in Solaris that are not available on alternative operating systems.
		The port of the OpenSolaris Kernel and subsequent release of the associated source code to the community is a required first step in developing a truly embedded Solaris distribution.
	research.sun.com /spotlight/2006/2006-06-14-SolarisPPC.html (1104 words)

	OpenSolaris Leadership Named
		Fielding said OpenSolaris development from this point forward would be for the current Solaris tree version 10.1, which is now code-named Nevada.
		"OpenSolaris can only be successful on a large scale if it can be built by developers who lack a computer science background.
		The OpenSolaris group said it is going in a different direction than the JCP in that it is reaching out more to get people involved and make it an open basis to create a community of equals.
	internetnews.com /dev-news/article.php/3495286 (633 words)

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		OpenSolaris Buildable Source @(#)README.opensolaris 1.46 2006/02/07 SMI Note: if this is your first OpenSolaris installation, please see the currently known issues section below to see the minimum build of Solaris Express - Community Release required to build and install OpenSolaris.
		If you live in one of these countries, it is your responsibility to ensure that you are complying with your country's laws in this area.
		The most recent list is available on the OpenSolaris.org website in the Nevada community at: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/onnv/known_issues/ The current minimum SXCR build needed to build the OpenSolaris sources is Nevada build 46.
	dlc.sun.com /osol/on/downloads/current/README.opensolaris (1218 words)

	LWN: OpenSolaris on Xen
		That code snapshot should be able to boot and run on all the hardware that build 31 can today, plus it can boot as a diskless unprivileged domain on Xen 3.0.
		Last time I tried to play with OpenSolaris I had no end of hardware compatability problems.
		Now, with OpenSolaris in a domU and Linux as the dom0, OpenSolaris just gained wide hardware support.
	www.lwn.net /Articles/171982 (250 words)

	CIO India - OpenSolaris a Big Hit
		While bug fixing is important, what's really fascinating is the work some people are doing on porting OpenSolaris to PowerPC, to the mainframe space, to shrink it down to an RTOS [real-time operating system] and people are also looking to extract pieces of the operating system.
		New code becomes available in OpenSolaris and is integrated and tested, then there's a distribution, a commercial release version called Solaris.
		ZFS is in OpenSolaris and will be available in Solaris in the spring of 2006.
	www.cio.in /news/viewArticle/ARTICLEID=498 (823 words)

	Schillix: OpenSolaris Testing Ground
		On the OpenSolaris road map, management tools and a system installer are scheduled to be added almost a year from now.
		Missing package management pieces are a looming problem for OpenSolaris and for any distributions it engenders, and it may be a tricky one to solve.
		It would be possible for members of the OpenSolaris community to implement the Solaris package system anew or to replace it with an alternative, but it's preferable that whatever solutions Sun and the community arrive at not break compatibility with the current Solaris schemes.
	www.eweek.com /article2/0,1895,1854001,00.asp (1769 words)

	Sun Follows Apache Model To Govern OpenSolaris - News by InformationWeek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Apr 6, 2005 10:00 AM Sun Microsystems has selected five people for its OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board, including a key developer of the Apache Web server, with the goal of using it as a nucleus for a larger community of open-source developers.
		Sun would like to see a vigorous community surround OpenSolaris, similar to the one that surrounds Linux, which has been nibbling away at the low end of Sun's customer base.
		Two members elected by the OpenSolaris pilot community were Al Hopper, engineer consultant of Logical Approach, a supply-chain consulting firm; and Rich Teer, an independent Solaris consultant and author of the book, Solaris Systems Programming (Prentice Hall, 2004).
	informationweek.com /story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160500059 (368 words)

	Jim Grisanzio
		A new OpenSolaris Community Group opens for a couple of million lines of new Cluster code.
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		Speaking at the start of the company's Hackweek in Germany, he argued that software companies need to find ways to mitigate the sometimes confrontational nature of open source development, if Asian developers are not to be excluded.
	blogs.sun.com /jimgris (2765 words)

	Developer Pipeline \| Sun Names OpenSolaris Advisory Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hopper and Teer were nominated and elected by the OpenSolaris pilot community, while Sun appointed its own representatives and Fielding, who was chosen because of his role in the greater open-source community.
		The mission of the board, which held its first meeting Monday morning, is to draft a proposal for governance of the OpenSolaris community so to "bootstrap" the community so it can eventually govern itself, Phipps said.
		Sun stated its plans to open-source Solaris last June, and OpenSolaris was originally expected to be released by the end of 2004.
	www.developerpipeline.com /160500599 (725 words)

	BeleniX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Having no prior knowledge of OpenSolaris, he has been able to single-handedly learn and implement the necessary code/script to achieve this.
		The read-only mount capability is an enhancement of the initial NTFS mount work done by Martin Rosenau.
		The significant feature of this release is the development of an I/O scheduler for the HSFS module in OpenSolaris.
	belenix.sarovar.org /belenix_home.html (1964 words)

	FEATURE STORIES - Open Solaris - Sun Microsystems Australia
		Today Sun is releasing the Solaris OS source code as an open source project, the OpenSolaris Operating System (OpenSolaris source code).
		The OpenSolaris source card is available for both the SPARC platform and x86 and x64 platforms.
		Community involvement and input is crucial to the success of the OpenSolaris source code program.
	au.sun.com /2005-0614/opensolaris (361 words)

	OpenSolaris
		The OpenSolaris initiative allows Sun and our partners to bid on and participate in projects that require open source software.
		Within the OpenSolaris development process, stringent controls exist to maintain the integrity of the source tree.
		That is why it is a fundamental design principle of both the Solaris OS and OpenSolaris that the system must always be fully auditable and that, in the event of a breach, the system is designed to minimize any exposure with such features as Solaris Containers and the fine-grained Privileges.
	www.sun.com /software/opensource/opensolaris.jsp (715 words)

	Schillix's Hompage \| Main / HomePage
		Schillix is a complete OpenSource operating system based on the source code of OpenSolaris.
		Sun released the OpenSolaris code on June 14.
		Since Schillix is build upon our own developed tools we are able to produce new versions shortly after the code is released at OpenSolaris We are right now trying to build Xorg6.9.
	schillix.berlios.de (157 words)

	OpenSolaris ready to power up on IBM's PowerPC \| The Register
		Such an operating system could help push Sun Microsystems' OS into new markets beyond the SPARC and x86 processor families, as well as provide a boost for the OpenSolaris project.
		Initially, though, it looks as if the OpenSolaris port will run on the Freescale version of PowerPC but include support for IBM's G3 chips.
		"Ladies and Gentlemen, The OpenSolaris kernel for PowerPC has been built," the Blastware folks wrote.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2006/01/10/solaris_on_power (589 words)

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