OpenSolaris News

Tue Jun 30 2009 New Bernd Schemmer, has contributed a Qemu image of Milax 0.4. Look for milax040_qemu_harddisk_img.7z in the Milax download area. Many Thanks Bernd!

Thur Jun 25 2009 New The first preview release, of what will become OpenSolaris 2010.02 in February of 2010, is now available. It is based on build 117.

 Description Arch  Download file
 ISO Universal x86  osol-1002-117-x86.iso
 USB Universal x86  osol-1002-117-x86.usb
 Automated Installer x86  osol-1002-117-ai-x86.iso
 Automated Installer   SPARC   osol-1002-117-ai-sparc.iso
 MD5 Hash all  md5sums_117.txt

Mon Jun 22 2009 New Alexander Eremin, has released a new USB image of Milax designed for the EEE PC. Look for milax04eeepc.usb in the Milax download area.

Wed Jun 3 2009 Alexander Eremin, has released updated ISO and USB versions of Milax. Checkout version 0.4 in the Milax download area.

Mon June 01 2009 New OpenSolaris release 2009.06 is available! Checkout what's new and the release notes for x86 and SPARC.

 Description Arch  Download file
 ISO Universal x86  osol-0906-x86.iso
 USB Universal x86  osol-0906-x86.usb
 Automated Installer x86  osol-0906-ai-x86.iso
 Automated Installer   SPARC   osol-0906-ai-sparc.iso
 MD5 Hash all  md5sums_0906.txt

Tue May 26 2009 Andre Lue has released updated versions of the EON (Embedded ON) NAS (Network Attached Storage) code that turns commodity hardware running EON into a NAS appliance. It's based on OpenSolaris build 114. For details, go directly to Andre's blog. tryit

 Description  Arch   Download file
 EON ver 0.591 CIFS  x86  eon-0.591-114-32-cifs.iso
 EON ver 0.591 SMB x86  eon-0.591-114-32-smb.iso
 EON ver 0.591 CIFS  x86  eon-0.591-114-64-cifs.iso
 EON ver 0.591 SMB x86  eon-0.591-114-64-smb.iso
 MD5 Hash all  md5sum-eon-0.591-all.txt

Mon May 11 2009 New Hiroshi Chonan has released a new version of his utility that allows creation of an OpenSolaris Live USB image on a Windows platform. The new versions are OsolLiveUSB003.zip and OsolLiveUSB003-src.zip. Don't forget to check the MD5 checksums. For more details, go directly to Hiroshi Chonans Live USB project site.

Thur Apr 23 2009 OpenSolaris preview 2009.06, based on build 111a, is available!

 Description Arch  Download file
 ISO Universal x86  osol-0906-111a-x86.iso
 USB Universal x86  osol-0906-111a-x86.usb
 Automated Installer x86  osol-0906-111a-ai-x86.iso
 Automated Installer   SPARC   osol-0906-111a-ai-sparc.iso
 MD5 Hash all  md5sums_111a.txt

Tue Apr 14 2009 Hiroshi Chonan has created a slick utility that allows creation of an OpenSolaris Live USB image on a Windows platform. This is a great way for a Windows user to try OpenSolaris by being able to conveniently create a live bootable image on a USB key on their windows desktop. Genunix is pleased to provide downloads of OsolLiveUSB002.zip and OsolLiveUSB002-src.zip. For details, go directly to Hiroshi Chonans Live USB project site.

Tue Apr 07 2009 OpenSolaris preview 2009.06, based on build 111, is available!

 Description Arch  Download file
 ISO Universal x86  osol-0906-111-x86.iso
 USB Universal x86  osol-0906-111-x86.usb
 Automated Installer x86  osol-0906-111-ai-x86.iso
 Automated Installer   SPARC   osol-0906-111-ai-sparc.iso
 MD5 Hash all  md5sums_111.txt

Mon Mar 30 2009 Andre Lue has released 4 updated versions of the EON (Embedded ON) NAS (Network Attached Storage) code that turns commodity hardware running EON into a NAS appliance. It's based on OpenSolaris build 110. For details, go directly to Andre's blog. Now includes 32-bit binaries. tryit

 Description  Arch   Download file
 EON ver 0.590 CIFS  x86  eon-0.590-b110-32-cifs.iso
 EON ver 0.590 SMB x86  eon-0.590-b110-32-smb.iso
 EON ver 0.590 CIFS  x86  eon-0.590-b110-64-cifs.iso
 EON ver 0.590 SMB x86  eon-0.590-b110-64-smb.iso
 MD5 Hash all  md5sum-eon-0.58.9-all.txt

Thur Mar 26 2009 OpenSolaris preview 2009.06, based on build 110, is available!

 Description Arch  Download file
 ISO Universal x86  osol-0906-110-x86.iso
 USB Universal x86  osol-0906-110-x86.usb
 Automated Installer x86  osol-0906-110-ai-x86.iso
 Automated Installer   SPARC   osol-0906-110-ai-sparc.iso
 MD5 Hash all  md5sums_110.txt

Thur Mar 12 2009 OpenSolaris preview 2009.06, based on build 109, is available! Question: Why are there 2 fewer ISO images in b109? Answer: [courtesy of Dave Miner] "Improvements in lofi have allowed us to drop the primary language CD and go with only the global images". Question: Is this the future of OpenSolaris? Answer: You decide! Please checkout this release and provide feedback to the OpenSolaris development team.

 Description  Arch   Download file
 ISO Universal x86  osol-0906-109-x86.iso
 USB Universal x86  osol-0906-109-x86.usb
 Automated Installer x86  osol-0906-109-ai-x86.iso
 Automated Installer   SPARC   osol-0906-109-ai-sparc.iso
 MD5 Hash all  md5sums_109.txt

Wed Feb 25 2009 OpenSolaris preview 2009.06, based on build 108, is available! - including an updated SPARC platform Automated Installer!

 Description Arch  Download file
 ISO Primary Lang x86  osol-0906-108-x86.iso
 ISO Global x86  osol-0906-108-global-x86.iso
 USB Primary Lang x86  osol-0906-108-x86.usb
 USB Global x86  osol-0906-108-global-x86.usb
 Automated Installer x86  osol-0906-108-ai-x86.iso
 Automated Installer   SPARC   osol-0906-108-ai-sparc.iso
 MD5 Hash all  md5sums_108.txt

Wed Feb 18 2009 Andre Lue, creator of the Embedded ON NAS image, has released two 64-bit EON flavours as follows:
EON 0.58.9 based on snv_104 64-bit, uses CIFS module eon-0.589-b104-64-cifs.iso.
EON 0.589 based on snv_104 64-bit, uses Samba eon-0.589-b104-64-smb.iso.
For details - go directly to Andre's blog. After downloading, please verify the checksums.

Wed Feb 18 2009 OpenSolaris preview 2009.06, based on build 107, is available! - including an updated SPARC platform Automated Installer!

 Description Arch  Download file
 ISO Primary Lang x86  osol-0906-107-x86.iso
 ISO Global x86  osol-0906-107-global-x86.iso
 USB Primary Lang x86  osol-0906-107-x86.usb
 USB Global x86  osol-0906-107-global-x86.usb
 Automated Installer x86  osol-0906-107-ai-x86.iso
 Automated Installer   SPARC   osol-0906-107-ai-sparc.iso
 MD5 Hash all  md5sums_107.txt

Tue Feb 3 2009 The first release of what will become the OpenSolaris 2009.06 later this year, is now available. Based on build 106a, the big news is that this release makes OpenSolaris technology available for the SPARC platform! :)

 Description Arch  Download file
 ISO Primary Lang x86  osol-0906-106a-x86.iso
 ISO Global x86  osol-0906-106a-global-x86.iso
 USB Primary Lang x86  osol-0906-106a-x86.usb
 USB Global x86  osol-0906-106a-global-x86.usb
 Automated Installer x86  osol-0906-106a-ai-x86.iso
 Automated Installer   SPARC   osol-0906-106a-ai-sparc.iso
 MD5 Hash all  md5sums_106a.txt

Mon Feb 2 2009 Alexander Eremin, has released updated ISO and USB versions of Milax. Checkout version 0.3.3 in the Milax download area.

Thur Jan 22 2009 Andre Lue, creator of the Embedded ON NAS image, has released two new EON flavours as follows:
Embedded ON RAM based live NAS
EON 0.58.9 based on snv_104 32-bit, uses CIFS module eon-0.58.9-b104-32-cifs.iso.
EON 0.58.9 based on snv_104 32-bit, uses Samba eon-0.58.9-b104-32-smb.iso.
For details - go directly to Andre's blog. After downloading, please verify the checksums.

Thur Dec 18 2008 Many apologies for the recent performance issues at genunix.org and for the patience the user community displayed while waiting for the site to be restored to it usual level of (high) performance. We had an issue with the original Apache server where the server slowed down dramatically as the number of active connections exceeded around 450. The exact cause remains a mystery - but it is simply not worth the time/energy to root-cause this issue - since the software is old and the OS release is way behind where it should be. But we chose to keep the site up and running for as long as possible before making the disruptive changes necessary to restore performance.

Currently there is an intermediate solution in place: the genunix.org server (www.genunix.org), which serves mostly static content, has been moved to another server running the latest version of the Cool Stack Apache server, while the wiki, which is far more difficult to move/upgrade, has been left on the original server now at the (DNS name has changed) http://wiki.genunix.org. So - very important - the wiki is now at wiki.genunix.org and the other content is at www.genunix.org. However, today we finally figured out the voodoo science of mod_rewrite - so that wiki links that begin with www.genunix.org/wiki will be dynamically remapped to wiki.genunix.org/wiki. Thus - existing links that reference Genunix wiki content should render correctly.

Again - thanks for your patience and please report any bugs you find to the webmaster.

Mon Dec 1 2008 OpenSolaris 2008.11 final is now available! :) The final release files are identical to the rc2 files released on Nov 21st. So, if you've previously downloaded rc2, you don't need to download the final files. Please see the summary in the following table:

 Component  RC2 name  0811 final name
 ISO Primary Lang   osol-0811-rc2.iso  osol-0811.iso
 ISO Global  osol-0811-rc2-global.iso   osol-0811-global.iso
 USB Primary Lang  osol-0811-rc2.usb  osol-0811.usb
 USB Global  osol-0811-rc2-global.usb   osol-0811-global.usb
 Automated Installer   osol-0811-rc2-ai.iso  osol-0811-ai.iso
 MD5 Hash  md5sums_rc2.txt   osol-0811-hashes.txt

Fri Nov 21 2008 Here you go: OpenSolaris 2008.11 Release Candidate 2 (rc2). Notice anything new? Yes - there are now 5 downloadables. The new ISO image, osol-0811-rc2-ai.iso, is used to set up the automated installer service. Details to follow on the OpenSolaris.Org announce list (soon). Please help make the final OpenSolaris release, 2008.11, the best possible, by checking these out and providing detailed feedback to the project team! osol-0811-rc2-global.iso, osol-0811-rc2-global.usb, osol-0811-rc2.iso. osol-0811-rc2.usb. After downloading, please verify the checksums.

Fri Nov 7 2008 Today we are pleased to present the initial Release Candidate 1B for OpenSolaris 2008.11 Please check it out and provide detailed feedback to the project team!! os200811-global.iso, os200811.iso, os200811-global.usb, os200811.usb. After downloading, please verify the checksums.

Tue Nov 4 2008 The Genunix site statistics, available by clicking on "Stats" on the top menu, have been updated to include data for October 2008. Or you can simply click here.

Thur Oct 30 2008 osol-0811-100a ISOs, the pre-release version of OpenSolaris 2008.11, based on Nevada build 100a, are now available in two flavors: osol-0811-100a.iso (supports primary languages and uses gzip compression) and osol-0811-100a-global.iso (supports all languages and uses LZMA compression). Please verify the checksums.

Tue Oct 14 2008 osol-0811-99 ISOs, the pre-release version of OpenSolaris 2008.11, based on Nevada build 99, are now available in two flavors: osol-0811-99.iso (supports primary languages and uses gzip compression) and osol-0811-99-global.iso (supports all languages and uses LZMA compression). Please verify the checksums.

Tue Oct 14 2008 OpenOffice 3.0.0 is generating a lot of interest - but technical issues with the the CollabNet site have made downloads challenging. So, here are the (Open)Solaris files for your downloading convenience:
OOo_3.0.0_Solarisx86_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz  172.08Mb
OOo_3.0.0_Solarisx86_install_en-US.tar.gz  140.41Mb
OOo_3.0.0_SolarisSparc_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz  188.63Mb
OOo_3.0.0_SolarisSparc_install_en-US.tar.gz  151.42Mb
After downloading, please verify your checksums.

Sun Oct 12 2008 The Genunix site statistics, available by clicking on "Stats" on the top menu, have been updated to include data for September 2008. Or you can simply click here.

Fri Oct 3 2008 Milax developer, Alexander Eremin, has released an updated SPARC version of MilaX 0.3.2. Checkout the Milax download area.

Thur Sep 18 2008 osol-0811-98 ISOs, the pre-release version of OpenSolaris 2008.11, based on Nevada build 98, are now available in two flavors: osol-0811-98.iso (supports primary languages and uses gzip compression) and osol-0811-98-global.iso (supports all languages and uses LZMA compression). Please verify the checksums.

Thur Sep 11 2008 osol-0811-97 ISOs, the pre-release version of OpenSolaris 2008.11, based on Nevada build 97, are now available in two flavors: osol-0811-97.iso (supports primary languages and uses gzip compression) and osol-0811-97-global.iso (supports all languages and uses LZMA compression). Please verify the checksums.

Tue Sep 9 2008 OpenSolaris 2008.05 is now available in a dash one update in two flavors: os200805-1.iso (supports primary languages and uses gzip compression) and os200805g-1.iso (supports all languages and uses LZMA compression). Please verify the checksums. These updated ISOs correspond with the images released on the back-to-school kit and include updated IPS binaries so that the upgrades will go much more smoothly. Check it out!!

Wed Sep 10 2008 Milax developer, Alexander Eremin, has released updated x86 versions of MilaX 0.3.2. Checkout the Milax download area.

Thur Sep 4 2008 osol-0811-96 ISOs, the pre-release version of OpenSolaris 2008.11, based on Nevada build 96, are now available in two flavors: osol-0811-96.iso (supports primary languages and uses gzip compression) and osol-0811-96-global.iso (supports all languages and uses LZMA compression). Please verify the checksums.

Mon Sep 1 2008 Checkout the Genunix site statistics. Note that BeleniX accounts for > 80% of all Genunix traffic now via their own BeleniX branded site. Bottom line for August: 18.3 terabytes, daily average of 605 gigabytes, and.... 23,485 ISO downloads of BeleniX 0.7.1. The "big problem" :) for Belenix is: What are they going to do for a followup to the highly successful 0.7.1 release.?!

Sat Aug 16 2008 Question: "Where can I get the VirtualBox Guest Additions?" Answer: here. Followup: "Where did Genunix get the VirtualBox Guest Additions from?" Answer: here.

Thur Aug 14 2008 The OpenSolaris development package repository was updated to reflect the changes in snv_95, including major fixes to the Caiman Slim Install and the Image Packaging System. Please read the announcement here. osol-0811-95.iso supports primary languages and gzip compression. osol-0811-95-global.iso supports all languages and LZMA compression. Please verify the checksums:
5841ee7ff12dbe626c644419a7199077  osol-0811-95.iso  736.71Mb (burn to a DVD)
27c7040429d9dfbd587acb4375b654a6  osol-0811-95-global.iso  655.65Mb

Sun August 10 2008 The Genunix site statistics have been updated to include data for July 2008. As usual, BeleniX accounts for > 90% of all Genunix traffic! The stats for BeleniX 0.7.1 are awesome: 25,894 downloaded ISOs and 17.595Tb (terabytes) for the month of July 2008. Go Team BeleniX!! :)

Wed July 16 2008 On Sunday Jul 13, 2008 the OpenSolaris development package repository was updated to reflect the changes in snv_92 and snv_93 including an update to GNOME 2.22.2 and fixes to the Caiman Slim Install and the Image Packaging System. Please read the announcement here. ISO images are available from Genunix.
osol-0811-93.iso supports primary languages and gzip compression.
osol-0811-93-global.iso supports all languages and LZMA compression.
Important if you wish to burn either image, you must use DVD media. Please verify the checksums:
0c364cb016826ce79ac69cd7be630653  osol-0811-93.iso  735.41mb
d9138221bb7b7306c7b7356d0c578c51  osol-0811-93-global.iso  652.66Mb

Tue July 15 2008 Milax developer, Alexander Eremin, has released a SPARC version of MilaX 0.3.1. Quoted directly from Alex: [the SPARC version is] "Based on Nevada 91. This server (non-GUI) version include Apache, PHP, FTP, Samba and NFS servers, Midnight Commander, Cdpr, Elinks, Fping, Ifstat, Iftop, Irssi, Sysstat and other utilities. Also included IPS (experimental) support. The main goal of this version to become a RescueCD for SPARCs." Checkout the Milax download area.

Fri July 4 2008 The Genunix site statistics have been updated to include data for June 2008. Note that only partial data is available for Janurary and Feburary 2008 (the button background color is changed as a visual indication) - due to the fact that some logging data was lost when the access logfile exceeded 2G bytes in size. Whoops! :)

Tue June 10 2008 Milax developer, Alexander Eremin, has released updated versions of MilaX - now at revision 0.3.1. In addition to the usual desktop editions, todays releases include the Server Edition of Milax; no desktop GUI - but server packages like Apache, PHP, Samba etc. See the Announcement here. Checkout the Milax download area.

Mon May 5 2008 Today is a huge milestone in the ongoing progress of the OpenSolaris project. Today we have a distribution, formerly known as Project Indiana, being released as the first distribution called OpenSolaris. I know you just want the download links - you can read all the details elsewhere.... There are 2 versions of the OpenSolaris ISOs: os200805.iso is a bit larger, uses gzip for compression, has fewer supported languages, and installs reasonably quickly. os200805g.iso (g for global) is a bit smaller, uses lzma for compression, has 11 supported languages, and takes twice as long to install. Recommendation: If you want to download only one image, use os200805.iso. Remember to verify your md5 checksums as follows:
1ef56fc1d43c630c50e4636de14963eb os200805.iso
94aa8b6ab6f56b3924e623b4afdc31d0 os200805g.iso

Wed Apr 23 2008 Milax developer Alexander Eremin has released updated versions of MilaX - now at revision 0.3. Checkout the Milax download area.

Sat Apr 19 2008 13:00 hours PDT. BeleniX 0.7. has reached the 1.5 terabyte milestone only 85 hours after being released! Yes - that's right - 1,525,931,449,176 bytes downloaded, which represents approximately 2,139 downloads of the 680Mb iso image in only 85 hours. Congratulations Team BeleniX - you *rock*!

Tues Apr 15 2008 Hot news BeleniX 0.7 has been released and is immediately available on genunix. Checkout the release announcement. But we know what you want - the download link!. Congrats to Moinak and Team BeleniX. If you only have a little time available - do yourself a big favor and checkout BeleniX 0.7. It rocks!.

Thur Apr 3 2008 Milax developer Alexander Eremin has released two hard disk installation utilities including one which creates and installs to a ZFS based filesystem. Checkout the Milax download area.

Wed Mar 12 2008 From Russia with Love we have an OpenSolaris based release which mimics Damn Small Linux, called MilaX - now at version 0.2. Download the MilaX ISO and USB images here

Fri Feb 15 2008 The Documentation Team never sleeps.... Or at least that is how it appears from the outside! :) Without a doubt they produce some of the best docs in the industry. Checkout their February release:

Tue Feb 12 2008 Here it is, the latest/greatest Project Indiana Preview 2

Fri Feb 1 2008 The folks at Nexenta.Org continue to demonstrate ingenuity and innovation with their latest OpenSolaris based distribution called NexentaCP (Core Platform). NexentaCP combines the power of OpenSolaris with the usability of Linux! The install image is compact (around 320Mb) and quickly downloaded from here. The clever part of this work is the associated APT package repository (updated automagically every hour) - from which the Core Platform can be configured for the task at hand. Many congrats to Team Nexenta!

Current releases

Software Version
BeleniX 0.7.1
MilaX 0.4
Nexenta NexentaCP 1.0.1-b85
OpenSolaris release 2009.06
OpenSolaris preview osol-1002-117-x86.iso
SchilliX 0.6.7 (b92)
SXCE via OpenSolaris
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