The company is continuing its effort to integrate Linux interfaces into its Solaris OS, a move that would make it easier to bring programs based on Linux to Solaris machines. Stephen Shankland worked ...

New license likely will be used to govern Solaris OS. But it may inhibit cross-pollination between Solaris and Linux. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

At a panel Tuesday during Enterprise Linux Summit, Torvalds said Sun's efforts to open-source Solaris 10 according to the OSI-approved Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL) could give ...

ORLANDO, Fla.--Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy on Tuesday reiterated his company's plans to sell desktop PCs running Linux, and said the company is focusing on supplying "good enough" computing.

Sun won approval last week from the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for its Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL), giving Sun official open-source status. The CDDL is widely expected to ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems will build software into its forthcoming Solaris 10 version of Unix to run Linux applications unchanged. The software, called Project Janus, will work on servers using ...

Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first complete and open ...