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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."

2 of 135 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Blinking lights and tape spindles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Shut the fuck up, pedant. You totally killed the joke.

  2. Don't get too excited by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Solaris only works on Apple Mac Supercomputeres. Plus it is not for Christians who believe in God and also Jesus Christ. Because if you use Microsotf you are not a Jew or a Mohammadean infedil. Please everyone remember to cast your votes for McKaner or OBOMA. They are Christians who love Jesus and Unixes of the Holy GHOST.