I tested OpenSolaris earlier this year shortly after the developers announced the project's first official release. Although I was impressed with the ease of installation and several other aspects of ...

Sun is set to launch the latest version of OpenSolaris, tuning it for the enterprise with a new support contract, processor support, and networking and storage technology. Sun, which is in the process ...

Sun Microsystems has released the source code for its OpenSolaris file system, a major component of its server operating system. As part of a "build," or update, to OpenSolaris, the company on ...

According to Sun officials, OpenSolaris is the first operating system with ZFS as its default file system. Its advantages include built-in rollback, the use of checksums and redundancy to ...

What you're missing is that it's the development release of OpenSolaris that has dedupe. This is expected to appear in the "stable" version of OpenSolaris at the next release. I'm not aware of any ...

Sun has released the first fruits of a new, more Linux-like attempt to make something useful from its open-source Solaris effort. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

OpenZFS 2.4.0 brings interesting new features as well as many bug fixes. There still seem to be problems in some areas, such ...

Sun and OpenSolaris.org on Monday released the first publicly available version of the OpenSolaris operating system since work on the project began in 2005. The operasting system, which is a single ...

Sun Microsystems announced the initial version of its opensource OpenSolaris operating system, previously only available in a developer preview release. The OpenSolaris operating system is available ...