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OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris was an open source operating system based on Sun Microsystems Solaris. Created by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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OpenSolaris was an open source operating system based on Sun Microsystems Solaris. It was also the name of the project initiated by Sun to build a developer and user community around it.

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OpenSolaris was added by Valentin in Nov 2009 and the latest update was made in Nov 2014. The list of alternatives was updated Sep 2014 There is a history of all activites on OpenSolaris in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on OpenSolaris or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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Development of OpenSolaris has been discontinued. Oracle has replaced the OpenSolaris distribution model with the commercial Solaris Express.

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