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Lesser Known Features of OpenSolaris
An attempt to make a book on the secret dug-out features of Solaris by Joerg Moellenkamp
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The LXF Test: OpenSolaris 2008.05
Sun is battling hard to break into the open source operating system world with OpenSolaris. Juliet Kemp takes it for a test-drive, sampling its unique features and seeing how it fares against Linux.
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An Early Look At OpenSolaris 2008.11
ver the weekend we had posted our synopsis of Solaris Express Community Edition Build 93, which brings a great deal of needed changes to the Solaris Nevada code-base in order to bring its packages up-to-date. While OpenSolaris 2008.05 is only two months old, work at Sun is already underway in preparing for the second OpenSolaris release, which will be known as OpenSolaris 2008.11 and has been codenamed Jericho. OpenSolaris development packages for this next release, which are currently based upon Solaris Nevada Build 93, are now available through an IPS update along with early ISO spins.
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Solaris gears up for new processors
Sun Microsystems has confirmed that its Open Solaris operating system will be ready to use new features on the forthcoming Intel Nehalem processor range before it actually launches.
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OpenSolaris still has some Linux copying to do
Sun has made good on its promise to deliver OpenSolaris, the company's Unix-based answer to Linux, with a company-supported, commercial update arriving in mid-May. Although far from a complete product, the latest OpenSolaris is impressive and in the long run could prove a viable alternative to Linux.
Read more »SUN and Intel Partnership on OpenSolaris
SUN and Intel are jointly working on a lot of aspects of making OpenSolaris work better on Intel platforms including improving the xVM virtualization and adding optimizations for the upcoming Nehalem architecture. Read more at the InternetNews site.
Read more »A Regular Review of OpenSolaris
Pretty good review of OpenSolaris in The Register -- OpenSolaris still has some Linux copying to do.
Read more »"Raw hard disk access" in Solaris
Learn how to run your physically installed Windows installation inside of Solaris using VirtualBox and the "Raw hard disk access" mechanism to load physical OS's in a virtual machine. Also provides tips on making VirtualBox 1.6.2 work on OpenSolaris.
Read more »Drupal 6 on OpenSolaris Webstack
Excellent blog post on setting up Drupal 6 on OpenSolaris. This is how I got the php.ini settings fixed for this website's white screen of death problem initially.
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