Firm is expected to start sharing some source code of the OS and to detail its OpenSolaris plan on Tuesday. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...

Sun will release the source code of its operating system, but those eager for details may have to wait until early 2005. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

After months of hinting about its intentions, Sun on Wednesday confirmed that it intends to release source code from its Solaris operating system under an open-source license. After months of hinting ...

Sun Microsystems Inc.’s announcement this week that it plans to make Solaris an “open-source” operating system was met with mixed reactions from users and skepticism from open-source advocates. “I’m ...

Sun won approval last week from the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for its Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL), giving Sun official open-source status. The CDDL is widely expected to ...

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The ostensible confusion within Sun over the relationship between its first-born Solaris and sibling-rival Linux won’t be cleared up by the open source license it submitted to the Open Source ...

Sun plans on releasing a new version of its open source OpenSolaris operating system every six months, one of which will serve as the basis for the next version of its Solaris Unix operating system, ...

Boosting its Solaris OS, Sun Microsystems plans to distribute the PostgreSQL open source database with Solaris and will enable Red Hat Linux binaries to run unmodified on the OpenSolaris open source ...