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Mainframe OpenSolaris Now Available

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the better-late-than-never dept.

BBCWatcher writes "When Sun released Solaris to the open source community in the form of OpenSolaris, would anyone have guessed that it would soon wind up running on IBM System z mainframes? Amazingly, that milestone has now been achieved. Sine Nomine Associates is making its first release of OpenSolaris for System z available for free and public download. Source code is also available. OpenSolaris for System z requires a System z9 or z10 mainframe and z/VM, the hypervisor that's nearly universal to mainframe Linux installations. (The free, limited term z/VM Evaluation Edition is available for z10 machines.) Like Linux, OpenSolaris will run on reduced price IFL processors."

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  1. Outstanding! by tjstork · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have a big old z in my basement that I've been itching to upgrade!

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    1. Re:Outstanding! by Ngarrang · · Score: 4, Funny

      The Z10's have a cool look to them. I think they took styling cues from Cray. Not enough blinky lights on the outside, though. Everyone knows a mainframe is supposed to have blinky lights and tape spindles whirrying about.

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  2. Okay... by LWATCDR · · Score: 3, Funny

    And IBM mainframe running Solaris...
    Now I have seen everything. Next AIX on the Sparc.

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    1. Re:Okay... by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well its a "well known fact"* that AIX was copied into linux and linux runs on sparc.

      *According to this guy Darl I know. But then again Darl also says that Richard Stallman is a three inches tall and lives in a cigar box under his bed with his invisible unicorn Simon.

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    2. Re:Okay... by UnknowingFool · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well we now have Windows running on Macs so you knew it was just a matter of time before dogs and cats would be living together and Armageddon . . :P

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    3. Re:Okay... by X0563511 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I have a dog and a cat.

      Hmm... Armageddon is nigh! Run!

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  3. or is that a Z80? by lrohrer · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have some Z80 boxes in my basement...

  4. Windows on the mainframe by viridari · · Score: 4, Funny

    The killer app will be the Big Blue Screen of Death.

  5. Re:Blinking lights and tape spindles by street+struttin' · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, he means more like this.