Oracle Solaris 11 Express Released

Posted by Soulskill on Monday November 15, 2010 @11:09AM from the long-time-coming dept.

comay writes "Today Oracle released Solaris 11 Express 2010.11. It includes a large number of new features (PDF) not found in either Oracle Solaris 10 or previous OpenSolaris releases, including ZFS encryption and deduplication, network-based packaging and provisioning systems, network virtualization, optimized I/O for NUMA platforms and optimized platform support including support for Intel's latest Nehalem and SPARC T3. In addition, Oracle Solaris 10 support is available from within a container/zone so migration of existing systems is greatly simplified." Reader gtirloni adds, "Oracle also announced that this is not a beta or preview, but a full, supported release aimed at everybody developing, testing, prototyping or demonstrating applications running on the latest Solaris release (not allowed to be used in production)."

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VirtualBox? by Conley+Index · 2010-11-15 11:46 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Solaris... there are alternatives. I wonder if ZFS will continue to be released to be used in FreeBSD.
OpenOffice.org... some project will build on it (and I do not need "Office"-Software, LaTeX does what I need).
Java... "Open" is not really done and the other license...
The only thing that I really worry about is VirtualBox. I have not found any other free Desktop virtualization that works.
Re:Wait, what? by SETIGuy · 2010-11-15 13:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

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