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- 04/20/2009 New Pro OpenSolaris Book by H. Foxwell and C. Tran
- 04/11/2009 The OpenSolaris Apps of Steel Challenge - a chance to win a Toshiba laptop!
- 04/01/2009 Order Toshiba OpenSolaris Laptops Now
- 03/30/2009 Sun Studio Express 3/09 is now available
- 03/30/2009 OpenSolaris and Intel deliver industry leading performance
- 03/11/2009 Cutting costs with SSD-Based Servers, OpenSolaris and Solaris ZFS
- 03/11/2009 Cutting costs with SSD-Based Servers, OpenSolaris and Solaris ZFS
- 12/11/2008 Zmanda Integrates OpenSolaris
- 12/10/2008 Time Slider: OpenSolaris 2008.11 Killer Feature
- 12/10/2008 Sun Releases OpenSolaris 2008.11
- 12/03/2008 OpenSolaris 11.08 - Interview and Demo
- 12/03/2008 OpenSolaris tackles Ubuntu dominance
- 02/11/2009 Getting GlassFish up and running on the OpenSolaris
- 01/13/2009 Build your own Drobo-Replacement based on ZFS
- 01/16/2009 Fluendo Makes New Codecs Available for OpenSolaris
- 01/02/2009 OpenSolaris 08.11 first impressions
- 12/19/2008 Goodbye Linux, I'm in love with OpenSolaris
- 12/03/2008 OpenSolaris; Your opinions
- 12/03/2008 OpenSolaris 2008.11 Released: What's New?
- 12/03/2008 OpenSolaris 2008.11 released with OSS Goodies
- 12/01/2008 OpenSolaris: Poised for a Coup?
- 12/01/2008 OpenSolaris 2008.11 Release
- 10/29/2008 OpenSolaris helps OurStage Inc. improve I/O performance
- 09/30/2008 Podcast with OpenSolaris Award winners
- 06/10/2008 OpenSolaris Storage Community and Qlogic
- 05/06/2008 Radio Free Software: Intel on OpenSolaris
- 05/05/2008 Introduction to DTrace
- 12/03/2008 OpenSolaris and Open Source Graphics
- 10/08/2008 OpenSolaris and the Intel/Sun Collaboration
- 08/05/2008 OpenSolaris-Up Close and Personal
- 07/08/2008 OpenSolaris & Intel® Xeon® Processors: Power Utilization
- 07/06/2008 Inteview with Simon Phipps on OpenSource Strategy
- 05/10/2008 OpenSolaris Summit Interview
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OpenSolaris 2008.11 Launch
This is the main launch video for OpenSolaris 2008.11, featuring John Fowler, Jim McHugh, Sun Engineering, and partners Zmanda and AMD.
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Sun Engineers talk about OpenSolaris 2008.11
Discussion between Stephen Hahn and Tim Cramer talking about highlights of the new OpenSolaris features and cool things on repositories.
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OpenSolaris Demo: Time Slider in OpenSolaris 2008.11
Roman Strobl demos the new Time Slider functionality that allows developers instant rollback and point in time snapshots.
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AMD and OpenSolaris 2008.11
This is an interview between Sun and AMD about all of contributions and advancements that AMD has made to OpenSolaris 2008.11.
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Intel & OpenSolaris 2008.11
Interview between Intel and Sun regarding Intel's contributions to the OpenSolaris 2008.11 release.
Why use the OpenSolaris Operating System? Because only OpenSolaris offers unique features like TimeSlider, ZFS as the default filesystem, an enhanced Image Packaging System (IPS), COMSTAR, DTrace-enabled packages for extreme observability and performance tuning, D-Light, and much more. OpenSolaris provides the ideal open-source platform to develop your next-generation applications. And when you are ready to deploy, OpenSolaris has the world-record performance you want and the reliability you need -- all backed by world-class support from Sun.
Download OpenSolaris 2008.11 now and experience it from the Live CD or install it on your favorite system. OpenSolaris supports more than 1000 systems, from laptops to the latest multicore servers. Join the community, share your experiences and start contributing your applications to the package repository. You can also join the OpenSolaris.org community of developers building the systems software you see here.