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 a new partner project along with the Illumos OS/net derivative. The new project, announced this...
0 replies - 5728 views - 09/15/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
The SecBrowsing blog noted a major change in the speed at which users updated their Flash version during the last patch. The blog measured the number of visitors using Chrome with an updated version of Flash over the span of a couple weeks. For the June...
0 replies - 17061 views - 08/23/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
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, a former Oracle Solaris engineer and current Nexenta employee, is pretty certain that the leaked...
0 replies - 4593 views - 08/19/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
For the seven months that Oracle has owned Sun's technological assets, they have welcome contributions and roadmaps for their inherited open source projects. However, the company has also made several crucial missteps in its handling of OSS projects and...
13 replies - 6684 views - 08/15/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
A blogger has leaked what is believed to be an internal Oracle memo about the future of OpenSolaris and Solaris 11. The key quote from the memo states: "We will not release any other binary distributions, such as nightly or bi-weekly builds of Solaris...
1 replies - 18452 views - 08/13/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Determined not to make the same mistakes that Sun did when they bit off more than they could chew in some of their roadmaps, Oracle presented a more moderate amount of data today to outline their plans for the Solaris 11 operating system and SPARC systems. ...
1 replies - 5741 views - 08/11/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
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 itself. In order to preserve the advancement of OpenSolaris community and the open source code, Nexenta...
0 replies - 5244 views - 08/03/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Update: At the bottom of this page you will find commentary on these events from Nexenta CEO Evan Powell. Nexenta is invested in the future of OpenSolaris with its NexentaCore platform, which utilizes the OpenSolaris kernel along with ZFS and core Solaris.
0 replies - 6248 views - 07/13/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Nexenta is no stranger to talented developers. The company was founded by the same developers who wrote the iSCSI stack for Linux in 2003. When Sun released open source Solaris, Nexenta decided to build a distribution using the Solaris kernel with Debian...
0 replies - 4826 views - 06/09/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
CommunityOne is a gathering of many open source communities which precedes the JavaOne conference that begins Tuesday here at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. This year’s event has 50% more attendees that last years, with double the number of...
0 replies - 3298 views - 05/06/08 by Philip Cornthwaite in News
JNIEasy is
a development Java library focused on JNI access to C/C++ native
methods. Here Jose, its creator, tells you all about it via an example scenario.
6 replies - 26961 views - 04/03/08 by Jose Maria Arranz in News
