Editing OpenSolaris (section)

==History==
{{further|Solaris (operating system)#History}}
OpenSolaris was based on Solaris, which was originally released by Sun in 1991. Solaris is a version of [[UNIX System V]] [[UNIX System V#SVR4|Release 4]] (SVR4), jointly developed by Sun and AT&T to merge features from several existing [[Unix]] systems. It was licensed by Sun from [[Novell]] to replace [[SunOS]].<ref>
{{cite press release
 | title       = SunSoft introduces first shrink-wrapped distributed computing solution: Solaris
 | url         = http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/25years/pr.html#solaris
 | publisher   = [[Sun Microsystems]]
 | date        = September 4, 1991
 | access-date  = 2007-08-07
}}</ref>

Planning for OpenSolaris started in early 2004. A pilot program was formed in September 2004 with 18 non-Sun community members and ran for 9 months growing to 145 external participants.<ref>{{cite web
 |author       = Jörg Schilling
 |title        = More ksh93 builtins
 |url          = http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2010-March/007627.html
 |publisher    = opensolaris.org
 |date         = March 24, 2010
 |access-date   = 2010-04-12
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20111005100745/http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2010-March/007627.html
 |archive-date = October 5, 2011
 |url-status   = dead
}}</ref> Sun submitted the [[Common Development and Distribution License|CDDL]] (Common Development and Distribution License) to the [[Open Source Initiative|OSI]], which approved it on January 14, 2005.

The first part of the Solaris code base to be open-sourced was the Solaris Dynamic Tracing facility (commonly known as [[DTrace]]), a tool that aids in the analysis, debugging, and tuning of applications and systems. DTrace was released under the CDDL on January 25, 2005, on the newly launched ''opensolaris.org'' website.<ref>
{{cite web
 | author      = Michael Singer
 | title       = Sun Cracks Open Solaris
 | url         = http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3463621
 | publisher   = InternetNews.com
 | date        = January 25, 2005
 | access-date  = 2010-04-12
}}</ref> The bulk of the Solaris system code was released on June 14, 2005. There remains some system code that is not open source and is available only as pre-compiled [[Binary file|binary]] files.

To direct the newly fledged project, a Community Advisory Board was announced on April 4, 2005: two were elected by the pilot community, two were employees appointed by Sun, and one was appointed from the broader [[free software community]] by Sun. The members were [[Roy Fielding]], Al Hopper, Rich Teer, Casper Dik, and [[Simon Phipps (programmer)|Simon Phipps]]. On February 10, 2006, Sun approved ''The OpenSolaris Charter'', which reestablished this body as the independent OpenSolaris Governing Board.<ref>
{{cite web
 |author      = Simon Phipps
 |date        = February 10, 2006
 |title       = OpenSolaris Independence Day
 |url         = http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/webmink?entry=opensolaris_independence_day
 |publisher   = [[Sun Microsystems]]
 |access-date  = 2009-11-21
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20060225090717/http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/webmink?entry=opensolaris_independence_day
 |archive-date = February 25, 2006
}}</ref> The task of creating a governance document or "constitution" for this organization was given to the OGB and three invited members: Stephen Hahn and Keith Wesolowski (developers in Sun's Solaris organization) and Ben Rockwood (a prominent OpenSolaris community member). The former next-generation Solaris OS version under development by Sun to eventually succeed Solaris 10 was [[codename]]d 'Nevada', and was derived from what was the OpenSolaris codebase and this new code was then pulled into new OpenSolaris 'Nevada' snapshot builds. "While under Sun Microsystems' control, there were bi-weekly snapshots of Solaris Nevada (the codename for the next-generation Solaris OS to eventually succeed Solaris 10), and this new code was then pulled into new OpenSolaris preview snapshots available at Genunix.org. The stable releases of OpenSolaris are based on these Nevada builds."<ref name=phoronix-nevada>{{cite web
 | last        = Larabel
 | first       = Michael
 | title       = It Looks Like Oracle Will Stand Behind OpenSolaris
 | url         = https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODQyOQ
 | publisher   = [[Phoronix]]
 | date        = 2010-07-20
 | access-date  = 21 November 2012
}}</ref>

Initially, Sun's [[Solaris (operating system)#Development release|''Solaris Express'']] program provided a distribution based on the OpenSolaris code in combination with software found only in Solaris releases.<ref>{{cite web
 |author       = Dan Price
 |date         = June 21, 2006
 |title        = What's New in Solaris Express 6/05 (Nevada Build 15)
 |url          = http://blogs.sun.com/dp/entry/what_s_new_in_solaris6
 |publisher    = [[Sun Microsystems]]
 |access-date   = 2010-04-12
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20101021031920/http://blogs.sun.com/dp/entry/what_s_new_in_solaris6
 |archive-date = October 21, 2010
 |url-status   = dead
}}</ref> The first independent distribution was released on June 17, 2005, and many others have emerged since.<ref>{{cite web
 |date         = April 22, 2008
 |title        = Schillix's Homepage: Main / Announce
 |url          = http://schillix.berlios.de/pmwiki.php/Main/Announce
 |publisher    = Jörg Schilling
 |access-date   = 2010-04-08
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20111109182938/http://schillix.berlios.de/pmwiki.php/Main/Announce
 |archive-date = November 9, 2011
 |url-status   = dead
}}</ref>

On March 19, 2007, Sun announced that it had hired [[Ian Murdock]], founder of [[Debian]], to head ''Project Indiana'',<ref>{{cite web
 |author       = Simon Phipps
 |date         = March 19, 2007
 |title        = Charting the Next 25 Years
 |url          = http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/charting_the_next_25_years
 |publisher    = [[Sun Microsystems]]
 |access-date   = 2009-11-21
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20090925191020/http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/charting_the_next_25_years
 |archive-date = September 25, 2009
 |url-status   = dead
}}</ref> an effort to produce a complete OpenSolaris distribution, with [[GNOME]] and [[Userland (computing)|userland]] tools from [[GNU]], plus a network-based [[package management system]].<ref>{{cite web
 |author       = Timothy Prickett Morgan
 |date         = August 2, 2007
 |title        = Q&A: Sun's Top Operating System Brass Talk OS Strategy
 |url          = http://www.itjungle.com/tug/tug080207-story01.html
 |publisher    = IT Jungle
 |access-date  = 2012-12-29
 |archive-date = 2013-03-04
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20130304190824/http://www.itjungle.com/tug/tug080207-story01.html
 |url-status   = dead
}}</ref> The new distribution was planned to refresh the user experience and would become the successor to Solaris Express as the basis for future releases of Solaris.

On May 5, 2008, OpenSolaris 2008.05 was released in a format that could be booted as a [[Live CD]] or installed directly. It uses the GNOME desktop environment as the primary user interface. The later OpenSolaris 2008.11 release included a GUI for [[ZFS]]' snapshotting capabilities, known as Time Slider, that provides functionality similar to [[macOS]]'s [[Time Machine (macOS)|Time Machine]].

In December 2008, Sun Microsystems and [[Toshiba America Information Systems]] announced plans to distribute Toshiba laptops pre-installed with OpenSolaris.<ref>
{{cite web
 | author      = Tom Espiner
 | date        = December 12, 2008
 | title       = OpenSolaris now on Toshiba laptops
 | url         = https://www.zdnet.com/article/opensolaris-now-on-toshiba-laptops/
 | publisher   = [[ZDNet|ZDNet Australia]]
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite press release
 | title       = Sun Microsystems Launches Latest Version of OpenSolaris; Unveils Time Slider Visualization Tool and New Partnership with Toshiba to Build Line of OpenSolaris Laptops
 | url         = http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-12/sunflash.20081210.1.xml
 | publisher   = [[Sun Microsystems]]
 | date        = December 10, 2008
 | access-date  = 2008-12-21
 }}</ref> On April 1, 2009, the [[Toshiba Tecra|Tecra M10]] and [[Toshiba Portégé|Portégé R600]] came preinstalled with OpenSolaris 2008.11 release and several supplemental software packages.<ref>
{{cite web
 | title       = Toshiba OpenSolaris Laptops
 | url         = http://www.opensolaris.com/toshibanotebook/
 | publisher   = [[Sun Microsystems]]
 | access-date  = 2009-11-21
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 | title       = Get the Toshiba OpenSolaris Laptop
 | url       = http://www.shopopensolaris.com/suntoshiba/home.htm
 | publisher       = ShopOpenSolaris.com
 | access-date       = 2009-11-21
 | archive-url       = https://web.archive.org/web/20100305071903/http://www.shopopensolaris.com/suntoshiba/home.htm
 | archive-date       = 2010-03-05
 | url-status       = dead
 }}</ref>

On June 1, 2009, OpenSolaris 2009.06 was released, with support for the SPARC platform.<ref>
{{cite web
 | title       = What's New In 2009.06
 | url         = http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/features/whats-new/200906/
 | publisher   = [[Sun Microsystems]]
 | date        = June 2006
 | access-date  = 2009-11-21
}}</ref>

On January 6, 2010, it was announced that the Solaris Express program would be closed while an OpenSolaris binary release was scheduled to be released on March 26, 2010.<ref>
{{cite web
 |author      = Derek Cicero
 |title       = Update on SXCE
 |url         = http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=121181
 |publisher   = opensolaris.org
 |date        = January 6, 2010
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120224073441/http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=121181
 |archive-date = February 24, 2012
}}</ref> The OpenSolaris 2010.03 release never appeared.

On August 13, 2010, Oracle was rumored to have discontinued the OpenSolaris binary distribution to focus on the Solaris Express binary distribution program. Source code would continue to be accepted from the community and Oracle source code would continue to be released into Open Source, but Oracle code releases would occur only after binary releases. The internal email was released by an OpenSolaris kernel developer but was unconfirmed by Oracle.<ref>{{cite web
 |author       = Steven Stallion
 |title        = Update on SXCE
 |url          = http://sstallion.blogspot.com/2010/08/opensolaris-is-dead.html
 |publisher    = Iconoclastic Tendencies
 |date         = August 13, 2010
 |access-date  = August 17, 2010
 |archive-date = November 9, 2020
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20201109033546/http://sstallion.blogspot.com/2010/08/opensolaris-is-dead.html
 |url-status   = dead
}}</ref>

There was a post confirming the leak posted to the OpenSolaris Forums on August 13, 2010. Upstream contributions will continue through a new Oracle website, downstream source code publishing will continue, and binary distribution will continue under the old Solaris Express model, the but release of source code will occur after binary cuts, and binary cuts will become less frequent.<ref>{{cite web
 |author       = Alasdair Lumsden
 |title        = Update on SXCE
 |url          = http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=496203&tstart=0
 |publisher    = OpenSolaris.org
 |date         = August 13, 2010
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120514094002/http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=496203&tstart=0
 |archive-date = May 14, 2012
 |url-status   = dead
}}</ref>

On September 14, 2010, OpenIndiana was formally launched at the [[Joint Information Systems Committee|JISC]] Centre in [[London]]. While OpenIndiana is a fork in the technical sense, it is a continuation of OpenSolaris in spirit: the project intends to deliver a System V family operating system that is binary-compatible with the Oracle products Solaris 11 and Solaris 11 Express. However, rather than being based around the OS/Net{{clarify|Undefined term|date=November 2020}} consolidation like OpenSolaris was, OpenIndiana became a distribution based on illumos (the first release is still based around OS/Net). The project uses the same IPS package management system as OpenSolaris.<ref name="OIWikiFAQ"/>

On November 12, 2010, a final build of OpenSolaris (134b) was published by Oracle to the /release repository to serve as an upgrade path to Solaris 11 Express.

Oracle Solaris 11 Express 2010.11, a preview of Solaris 11 and the first release of the post-OpenSolaris distribution from Oracle, was released on November 15, 2010.<ref>{{cite web
 |author       = Glynn Foster
 |title        = [osol-announce] Oracle Solaris 11 Express 2010.11 Releases Today!
 |url          = http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2010-November/001512.html
 |publisher    = opensolaris.org
 |date         = November 15, 2010
 |access-date   = 2010-11-15
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20111005100825/http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2010-November/001512.html
 |archive-date = October 5, 2011
 |url-status   = dead
}}</ref>