What's Open About OpenSolaris?
Timothy Cramer, senior director of OpenSolaris engineering at Sun, talks about the "open" part of OpenSolaris.
DDJ: Tim, for clarity's sake, what are the basic differences between the Solaris 10 Operating System and OpenSolaris?
TC: The Solaris 10 operating system (OS) is Sun's long-term supported and tested enterprise-grade operating system. Solaris 10 is available as a free download and Sun offers regular updates, along with service and support packages. The OpenSolaris OS is an open source, community-developed system based on the Solaris kernel that delivers an unrivaled development environment offering a mix of rapid innovation, platform stability, and support. It is free to use, modify, and redistribute. In May 2008, Sun and the OpenSolaris community delivered a distribution of the OpenSolaris OS, known as OpenSolaris 2008.05, which Sun fully supports. This release changes the way innovation is delivered and allows the community to contribute new ideas and interesting software. OpenSolaris 2008.05 targets customers willing to accept more rapid evolution in order to take advantage of software advancements. OpenSolaris also allows the user to scale linearly on today's multicore systems and secure systems, applications, and data.
In the future, the latest enhancements to Solaris features including ZFS, DTrace, Solaris Containers, and Predictive Self Healing will be found in OpenSolaris first. In addition, OpenSolaris contains features that will only be included in Solaris releases following Solaris 10, including the new Solaris installer, innovative network software distribution, the latest GNOME desktop performance enhancements, and virtualization improvements in networking.
DDJ: What's "open" about OpenSolaris?
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