Thursday, 9 June 2005

OpenSolaris to Debut Next Week

Sun is expected to make OpenSolaris broadly available next week, making good on a promise to open source its flagship operating system. The project began in late January when Sun shared its DTrace optimising utility. Once released Sun will have contributed more than 1,600 patents associated with Solaris to the open source community.

The rest of Solaris will be offered up by Sun throughout the second quarter. This includes containers, predictive self-healing technologies, "hardened" Solaris security features derived from Trusted Solaris, IP networking stack, and the Zetabyte File System. The source will be licensed to developers under the Community Development and Distribution License.