Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Oct 2007 22:06 UTC, submitted by irbis
Sun Solaris, OpenSolaris "Recently there's been a lot of news about OpenSolaris, more specifically in reference to the great progress made by virtualization technologies in it. In this article, I will examine some of these technologies, and compare them with the state of the art on other platforms."
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RE[2]: A full line up
by chekr on Wed 10th Oct 2007 01:58 UTC in reply to "RE: A full line up"
chekr
Member since:
2005-11-05

</>"I deduced as much when I heard that there were no plans to ever update the linux branded zone from kernel 2.4 support."[/i]

Where did you here that from?

See here for the current status of the experimental support: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/todo/linux_2_6/

Edited 2007-10-10 02:00

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RE[3]: A full line up
by Luminair on Wed 10th Oct 2007 02:38 in reply to "RE[2]: A full line up"
Luminair Member since:
2007-03-30

I meant that Sun had no plans to enhance it. I assumed nobody else would either, but on that I was wrong ;)

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RE[4]: A full line up
by chekr on Wed 10th Oct 2007 02:51 in reply to "RE[3]: A full line up"
chekr Member since:
2005-11-05

You're right, Sun have not announced any plans as yet. I guess they are waiting to see how things pan out in OpenSolaris before bringing it back through to Solaris proper.

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RE[4]: A full line up
by drdoug on Wed 10th Oct 2007 03:53 in reply to "RE[3]: A full line up"
drdoug Member since:
2006-04-30

You assumed incorrectly. Somebody has started a 2.6.x kernel branded zone. Though it is work in progress....

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/todo/linux_2_6/

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