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An Early Look At OpenSolaris 2008.11

Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 15th Jul 2008 19:48 UTC, submitted by Michael Larabel

While OpenSolaris 2008.05 is only two months old, work at Sun is already underway in preparing for the second OpenSolaris release, which will be known as OpenSolaris 2008.11 and has been codenamed Jericho.

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Jericho?

by pixel8r on Wed 16th Jul 2008 03:30 UTC

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2007-08-11

if anyone remembers what actually happened to the city of Jericho, well it seems a weird name for something they hope will succeed, and not "crumble".

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RE: Jericho?

by evangs on Wed 16th Jul 2008 06:19 in reply to "Jericho?"

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2005-07-07

Jericho is also situated just outside Jerusalem and it is regarded as the final obstacle before entering the promised land. Hence a big deal was made about bringing down the walls of Jericho.

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RE[2]: Jericho?

by red_devel on Wed 16th Jul 2008 17:17 in reply to "RE: Jericho?"

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2006-03-30

It also represented a quick and improbable victory over a strong, entrenched enemy...symbolism?

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RE: Jericho?

by xfranky on Wed 16th Jul 2008 09:08 in reply to "Jericho?"

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2006-09-19

if anyone remembers what actually happened to the city of Jericho, well it seems a weird name for something they hope will succeed, and not "crumble".

IIRC Jericho's walls crumbled because of divine intervention... the interpretation might be that no human could bring them down.

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