What are Solaris 10, OpenSolaris and Solaris Express?
Solaris 10 is the latest release of Solaris. http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/10/ The OpenSolaris project is an open source project sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc, that is initially based on a subset of the source code for the Solaris Operating System. It is a nexus for a community development effort where developers from Sun and elsewhere can collaborate on developing and improving operating system technology. OpenSolaris is a single CD combined live/install image: a core operating system, kernel, system libraries, a desktop environment and a package management system. Support is available through paid subscription services and developer assistance. Solaris Express Community Edition is Sun’s binary release for OpenSolaris developers (code named “Nevada”). It is built from the latest OpenSolaris source and additional technology that has not been published in the OpenSolaris source base. This release is unsupported. Developers can build the OpenSolaris source by using this releas
Solaris 10 is the latest release of Solaris – http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris/overview/index.html The OpenSolaris project is an open source project that is initially based on a subset of the source code for the Solaris Operating System. It is a nexus for a community development effort where developers can collaborate on developing and improving operating system technology. OpenSolaris is a single CD combined live/install image: a core operating system, kernel, system libraries, a desktop environment and a package management system. Oracle Solaris 11 Express is a production ready operating system that builds on existing Oracle Solaris 10 features.
