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"If you're an OpenSolaris x86 user and are using a NVIDIA graphics card with NVIDIA's binary Solaris drivers, you can now enjoy Compiz on your desktop .

OpenSolaris 2008.5 , the new distribution based on the OpenSolaris operating system, has been released into the wild.

E' di questi giorni l'annuncio di Sirius, il porting di OpenSolaris su IBM zSeries (System/390)

"OpenSolaris is not only powerful, but it is very innovative. Somebody smart figured that simplistic chroot or BSD jail concepts could be extended to the level where every single part of HW is virtualized.

"On a good day, Solaris and OpenSolaris might combine for about 1 percent market share in the x86 server space, but there are some folks at Sun who believe that's enough to intimidate the Linux Community."

This should be a pretty killer feature." As one of the comments puts it, this adds a "Time Machine-esque" function to Solaris, through which a user can specify backup frequency, and when needed browse from ...

Anil Gulecha has announced the availability of the second alpha release of NexentaCore 2.0, a minimalist operating system comprising of a complete OpenSolaris kernel and runtime, along with Debian and GNU toolchains: "This is to announce availability of NexentaCore 2.0 Alpha 2 - Debian native OpenSolaris environment and....

Don MacAskill did an interesting experiment - he used a Opensolaris system for one of his database replicas .

It seems that you can install opensolaris on eeepc and Masafumi Ohta will present "OpenSolaris Installation on ASUS EeePC" at the Tokyo Open Source Conference on Oct 4th...

Shock headlines and unsubstantiated assertions. That's what you'll find in this InfoWorld piece on OpenSolaris -- Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed?

It's an unfortunate article because it's so obviously ...