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Welcome to OpenSolaris.org
We're developing an operating system that provides a rich, coherent platform for building and running applications. Learn More...
Open Source
The majority of the OpenSolaris code base is distributed under an OSI-approved open source license. Code based on existing open source projects continues to be available under its current license(s), and some binary-only components are covered under the OpenSolaris Binary License.
Compatible
The OpenSolaris code base supports systems that use SPARC® and x86 families of processor architectures: UltraSPARC®, SPARC64, AMD64, Pentium, and Xeon EM64T. View the OpenSolaris Hardware Compatibility List (HCL).
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Community-Driven
OpenSolaris technical communities develop a wealth of features from storage software and ZFS, to comprehensive system analysis tools like DTrace.
Our community represents a wide variety of developers, administrators, instructors and students around the world. Everyone has something to contribute. Contributions...
and Code Swarms...
Join In
Our new network-based package management system, IPS, that is included with the OpenSolaris 2008.11 LiveCD needs your package contributions. Join the Software Porters Community, or the F/OSS Package Base Project to get in touch with the package reviewers and find out how you can help.
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