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OpenSolaris was based on Solaris, which was originally released by Sun in 1991. Solaris is a version of UNIX System V Release 4 (SVR4), jointly developed by Sun and AT&T to merge features from several existing Unix systems. It was licensed by Sun from Novell to replace SunOS. [13] Planning for OpenSolaris started in early 2004.
5.3.0, May 2020 [1] Active “Enterprise Grade Unified Block & File Storage” [2] Commercial OmniOSce: OmniTI / OmniOSce Association 2012 [3] illumos, GNU: r151050 (May 6, 2024) [4] Active “Produce a self-hosting, minimalist Illumos-based release suitable for production deployment” [5] Gratis OpenIndiana: illumos Foundation et al. 2010 ...
Oracle Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system offered by Oracle for SPARC and x86-64 based workstations and servers.Originally developed by Sun Microsystems as Solaris, it superseded the company's earlier SunOS in 1993 and became known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as DTrace, ZFS and Time Slider.
Solaris Containers (including Solaris Zones) is an implementation of operating system-level virtualization technology for x86 and SPARC systems, first released publicly in February 2004 in build 51 beta of Solaris 10, and subsequently in the first full release of Solaris 10, 2005.
The full Crossbow feature set became part of Solaris with the 2011 release of Solaris 11. Oracle discontinued the OpenSolaris download sites after its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, but source code for Crossbow can be downloaded from the sites of the derivatives of illumos (see illumos § Distributions).
In August 2010, a leaked internal memo indicated that Oracle would no longer release OpenSolaris distributions, including the long-delayed pending release, OpenSolaris 2010.05. [19] The same memo announced that Oracle would no longer release Solaris source code as it was developed, instead only publishing it after the release of each Solaris ...
Java Desktop System OpenSolaris 2009.6 Desktop (discontinued). Java Desktop System, briefly known as OpenSolaris Desktop, is a legacy [1] desktop environment developed first by Sun Microsystems and then by Oracle Corporation after the 2010 Oracle acquisition of Sun. Java Desktop System is available for Solaris and was once available for Linux.
Illumos was announced via webinar on 3 August 2010, [9] as a community effort of a group of core Solaris engineers to create a truly open source Solaris, by swapping closed source bits of OpenSolaris with open implementations. [10] [11] [12] OpenSolaris itself is based on System V Release 4 (SVR4) and the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).