Open-source software specialist Sun Microsystems has this week announced the immediate availability of its OpenSolaris Operating System (OS), which is based on Sun’s Solaris kernel and has been created through collaboration with the open-source community.
Sun Microsystems officially opens public downloading of OpenSolaris OS. Image: MrBill/Flickr.
Unveiled by Sun while attending the CommunityOne Developer Conference in San Francisco, the new OpenSolaris OS arrives as a single distribution platform for desktop, server and HPC environments. According to Sun, the OS will deliver “and unrivalled development and deployment environment” that will offer “rapid innovation, platform stability and support to meet business and development needs.”
Designed by Sun to function primarily as a platform to allow developers to quickly create, test, troubleshoot and deploy their latest Web services, HPC and network applications, OpenSolaris Governing Board member Stephen Lau says that the OS also provides “an ideal environment for students, developers and early adopters looking to learn and gain experience with innovative technologies.”
The new OS includes easy-to-use system management via LiveCD installation and also the OpenSolaris Image Packaging System (IPS), which combine to simplify and speed up installation and third-party application integration.
“It is critical for the participants in this new market to have the right tools and technologies to meet these challenges. From a software perspective, it’s clear that open source is the right approach and that OpenSolaris provides the platform to participate, innovate and ultimately succeed,” said Rich Green, executive VP of software at Sun Microsystems, in referencing the emerging Network Economy. “I’m tremendously proud of the work the OpenSolaris community has put forth and believe the new OpenSolaris OS sets the innovation benchmark for what’s possible in an open-source world.”
First-time features appearing in the OpenSolaris OS include ZFS as its default file system, providing work protection through instant roll-back and continual check-summing to allow users to test ideas. The OS also offers DTrace (Dynamic Trace), which delivers the safe, pervasive ‘observability’ of production systems to accelerate application development and optimisation of the AMP/MARS stack.
And, the addition of Solaris Containers enables users to create virtualisation-aware apps that can be deployed on more than 1,000 systems, from single machines via multi-CPU and multi-core systems without having to worry about the potential hassles of integrating third-party software.
Beyond its default download availability, OpenSolaris OS has also been announced by Internet giant Amazon, which has made the operating system available through its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform. Similarly, payment card data security specialist Reliant Security has also announced the leveraging of its Managed PCI System (MPS) alongside the “security requirements and system resource” advantages provided by Sun Microsystems and its OpenSolaris OS.
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