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OpenIndiana: The New Open Alternative to Oracle Solaris

In the wake of Oracle's canning of the OpenSolaris project, the recently formed Illumos Foundation is making huge strides to fork as much code as possible into...

0 replies - 7445 views - 09/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Illumos Changes From Spoon to Fork

Illumos, the project to make a fully open source version of Solaris, couldn't have arrived at a more perfect time.  The Illumos project lead Garrett D'Amore,...

0 replies - 5858 views - 08/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Oracle and Open Source: A List of Grievances

For the seven months that Oracle has owned Sun's technological assets, they have welcome contributions and roadmaps for their inherited open source projects. ...

13 replies - 8292 views - 08/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Illumos: Determined Not to Let OpenSolaris be Another Darwin

Oracle's neglecting of the OpenSolaris Governing Board has led to an ultimatum which will expire on August 19th, at which point the OSGB will dissolve...

0 replies - 6866 views - 08/03/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles