Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 25th Sep 2007 12:31 UTC, submitted by Patrik Buckau
Solaris Express Developer Edition is a free, quarterly release of Sun's next generation Solaris Operating System built from the source code repository at OpenSolaris.org. The release includes the latest tools, technologies, and platforms to create applications for the Solaris OS, Java Application Platforms, and Web 2.0. "Major highlights: new Solaris installer - the first major rewrite of the Solaris installer since Solaris 8 makes installation much easier; D-Light, the GUI tool to bring the power of DTrace to a broad developer audience; service offerings have been augmented with the addition of installation and configuration support." Update: Review here.
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2006-12-28
I'm sure Kawai can beef this up.
*OpensSolaris* is the most bleeding edge of the Solaris releases and is akin to downloading and compiling a source based Linux distro (although, confusingly enough, you can get it in binary form!)
*Solaris Express Community Edition* is akin to Debian unstable and contains the latest bleeding edge software from the OpenSolaris project.
The *Solaris Express* releases are internal Sun builds of what will later become Solaris 11.
IIRC, *Solaris Express Developer Edition* is basically *Solaris Express* with a bunch of added tools (mostly to do with Java) as well as the latest GNU tool sets and such although I'm sure there is more to it than that.
For more details, check out http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_FAQ
and
http://developers.sun.com/sxde/
Edit: Looks like Kawai got there before me.
Edited 2007-09-25 13:41 UTC