Open source operating system from Sun Microsystems based on Solaris
For other uses, see Solaris (disambiguation).
Operating system
OpenSolaris
OpenSolaris build snv_134b
Developer
Sun Microsystems
Written in
C
OS family
Unix (System V Release 4)
Working state
Discontinued, continued by illumos[1][2][3]
Source model
Open source
Initial release
May 5, 2008; 16 years ago (2008-05-05)
Latest release
2009.06 / June 1, 2009; 14 years ago (2009-06-01)
Latest preview
snv_134 (build 134) x86/SPARC / March 8, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-03-08)
Available in
Multilingual (more than 53)[4]
Update method
Image Packaging System
Package manager
Package Manager, pkg
Platforms
SPARC, IA-32, x86-64
Kernel type
Monolithic
Userland
SVR4 C library, GNU Core Utilities and traditional Solaris commands
Default user interface
GNOME
License
Mostly CDDL with proprietary components[5] and other licenses
Official website
opensolaris.org (now redirects to Java.net closure page)
OpenSolaris (/ˌoʊpənsəˈlɑːrɪs/[6]) is a discontinued open-source computer operating system based on Solaris and created by Sun Microsystems. It was also, perhaps confusingly, the name of a project initiated by Sun to build a developer and user community around the eponymous operating system software.
OpenSolaris is a descendant of the UNIX System V Release 4 (SVR4) code base developed by Sun and AT&T in the late 1980s and is the only version of the System V variant of UNIX available as open source.[7] OpenSolaris was developed as a combination of several software consolidations that were open sourced starting with Solaris 10. It includes a variety of free software, including popular desktop and server software.[8][9]
After Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010, Oracle discontinued development of OpenSolaris in house, pivoting to focus exclusively on the development of the proprietary Solaris Express (now Oracle Solaris).[10][11]
Prior to Oracle's close-sourcing Solaris, a group of former OpenSolaris developers began efforts to fork the core software under the name OpenIndiana. The illumos Foundation, founded in the wake of the discontinuation of OpenSolaris, continues to develop and maintain the kernel and userland of OpenIndiana (together renamed “illumos”), while the OpenIndiana Project (now under the auspices of the illumos Foundation) continues to maintain and develop the illumos-based OpenIndiana distribution (including its installer and build system) as the direct descendant of OpenIndiana.[12] Since then additional illumos distributions, both commercial and non-commercial, have appeared and are under active development, combining the illumos kernel and userland with custom installers, packaging and build systems, and other distribution-specific utilities and tooling.
^"/osol-discuss/ OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express". Archived from the original on 2010-08-16. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
^"/osol-discuss/ OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express". Archived from the original on 2012-01-05. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
^Garrett D'Amore (3 August 2010). "illumos - Hope and Light Springs Anew - Presented by Garrett D'Amore" (PDF). illumos.org. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
^Petr Hruška (April 6, 2010). "Language/Locale Coverage". OpenSolaris 2010.03 Test Plan. opensolaris.org. Archived from the original on April 10, 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
^"OpenSolaris Binary Licensing FAQ". opensolaris.org. Archived from the original on 2009-10-01. Retrieved 2009-11-21.
^The pronunciation rhymes with "Polaris". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 2020-08-06.
^The BSD variant of UNIX, on which versions of Solaris prior to Solaris 2 (= SunOS 5) were based, has been open-source since June 1994.
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Jim Grisanzio (December 12, 2009). "OpenSolaris Consolidation Information". opensolaris.org. Archived from the original on July 29, 2012. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
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Jim Grisanzio (March 26, 2010). "What version of the Solaris Operating System is OpenSolaris?". opensolaris.org. Archived from the original on January 2, 2012. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
^"OpenSolaris is now officially dead. RIP". Archived from the original on 2010-08-15. Retrieved 2010-08-13.
^"Site Decommissioned". opensolaris.org. Archived from the original on 2012-12-28. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
^"Welcome to Project OpenIndiana!". Project OpenIndiana. 10 September 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
OpenSolaris (/ˌoʊpən səˈlɑːrɪs/) is a discontinued open-source computer operating system based on Solaris and created by Sun Microsystems. It was also...
the OpenSolaris distribution and the development model. In August 2010, Oracle discontinued providing public updates to the source code of the Solaris kernel...
Java Desktop System, briefly known as OpenSolaris Desktop, is a legacy desktop environment developed first by Sun Microsystems and then by Oracle Corporation...
Microsystems Solaris operating system in 2001. Large parts of Solaris, including ZFS, were published under an open source license as OpenSolaris for around...
OpenIndiana is a free and open-source illumos distribution descended from UNIX System V Release 4 via the OpenSolaris operating system. Forked from OpenSolaris...
ending the OpenSolaris operating system project and community. With Oracle planning to develop Solaris only in a closed source fashion, OpenSolaris developers...
Oracle was no longer supporting all the development of an open version of Solaris, the OpenSolaris Governing Board disbanded shortly after this was revealed...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise's HP-UX and Oracle's Solaris, plus the free-software illumos forked from OpenSolaris. System V was the successor to 1982's UNIX...
userland (with the exception of libc; OpenSolaris' libc is used) and Debian's packaging and organisation with the OpenSolaris kernel. Nexenta OS is available...
developed in open with contributing Opensolaris community through SXCE that used SVR4 .pkg packaging and supported OpenSolaris releases that used IPS. Following...
through MacOS 10.9). 2010: OpenSolaris was discontinued, resulting in the further development of ZFS on Solaris being no longer open-source. 2010: illumos...
to OpenSolaris in 2007 in support of the CIFS server. It has been carried forward from there into both the Oracle Solaris 11 releases and the open source...
maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) Sun Open Storage OpenSolaris Storage Projects The Open Storage Revolution (presentation by Jeff Bonwick)...
Illumos: Nexenta OS – combines the GNU userland with the OpenSolaris kernel. OpenIndiana – since OpenIndiana 151a based on Illumos AmigaOS 4 – Installable...
Solaris network virtualization and resource control is a set of features originally developed by Sun Microsystems as the OpenSolaris Crossbow umbrella...
by Ken and me and many others, many years ago". OpenSolaris was the free software counterpart to Solaris developed by Sun Microsystems, which included a...
effort of some core Solaris engineers to create a truly open source Solaris by swapping closed source bits of OpenSolaris with open implementations. The...
conference, that the engineers who had written the Solaris kernel requested that the license of OpenSolaris be GPL-incompatible. Mozilla was selected partially...
based on Solaris, which was originally released by Sun Microsystems in 1991. Sun released the bulk of the Solaris system source code in OpenSolaris on 14...
Originally developed for Solaris, it has since been released under the free Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) in OpenSolaris and its descendant...
modified kernel for labeled security environments. Solaris Trusted Extensions is an OpenSolaris project. Solaris Trusted Extensions, when enabled, enforces a...
build 51 beta of Solaris 10, and subsequently in the first full release of Solaris 10, 2005. It is present in illumos (formerly OpenSolaris) distributions...
was a component of Solaris based on work that was being done in the OpenSolaris Xen community. It was integrated into the OpenSolaris source base, and was...
from other non-proprietary Solaris-based distributions, it is recommended to upgrade to Solaris 11 Express from OpenSolaris (snv_134b), and thereby stay...
and some extensions. Icarus Verilog is available for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, AIX, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X. Released under the GNU General...
kernel interfaces. FUSE is available for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD (as puffs), OpenSolaris, Minix 3, macOS, and Windows. FUSE is free software originally...
to the open sourcing of Ancient UNIX systems, as well as modern successors such as the ditroff-based open-sourced versions found on OpenSolaris and Plan...
purchased by Sun in 2001. Sun released the SAM-QFS source code to the OpenSolaris project in March 2008. After Oracle acquired Sun, Oracle continued to...
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