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Old 07-11-2013
Open Solaris Installable

Hi,

Can anyone help me with the latest version of open solaris x86 and a link from where I can download it?
I am unable to find one online.
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Old 07-11-2013
Oracle scrapped the Open Solaris project a while ago.

The project was taken over and progressed onwards but renamed Open Indiana (aka OI).

OpenIndiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That should be easy to track down but did you particularly need the old Opensolaris?

Last edited by hicksd8; 07-11-2013 at 11:01 AM..
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Old 07-11-2013
As I understand we cant install sun solaris 10 on a non sparc machine.I was wanting to install solaris 10 x86 on a Virtual Machine and felt that open solaris was the best candidate for it.
Do you have any recommendations around this if I should use OpenIndiana instead of open solaris since I cant install Solaris 10 on a non sparc machine.
Please do correct me if am wrong.
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Old 07-11-2013
No, you're not wrong. It's just that if you get a copy of OpenSolaris x86, it will be out of date. It will still work of course. It may well be that someone on this forum can provide a copy.

OI is a running project with a current release.

And of course, you are correct, you cannot install SPARC code on a x86 system.
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Old 07-11-2013
Thanks Hick.

Anyone who can help me with a link to the last released version of Open Solaris(x86).
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Old 07-11-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by sankasu
I was wanting to install solaris 10 x86 on a Virtual Machine and felt that open solaris was the best candidate for it.
OpenSolaris was quite different from Solaris 10. Why not installing Solaris 10 for x86 on a VM ?
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Old 07-11-2013
Hi,
Open Solaris was killed by Oracle. For a little bit they renamed it Solaris Express, but that is now dead as well. Solaris 11 is now what has become of Open Solaris. You can get it here. Oracle Solaris 11

In 2010 Open Solaris forked and is now called illumos. You can get info on at the here: About illumos - illumos - illumos wiki
Illumos also forked and there is anther distro called OpenIndiana
You can dowload it here: Download | OpenIndiana

All 3 are free to download. There is also a Ubuntu/Solaris hybrid as well.

I hope this helps you
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