Solaris is also acquired by Oracle, it's called Oracle Solaris no more Sun Solaris. Current uname shows SunOS and I believe it will change to OracleOS soon. But I don't think OpenSolaris will become proprietary again.
Hasanuddin Abu Bakar ------------------------------- Ubuntu embedded developer/tester https://wiki.ubuntu.com/bizkut Get FireGPG for your Firefox! http://getfiregpg.org PGP Public Key http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xC5A1B11965D43C5C On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:20 AM, sweemeng ng <[email protected]> wrote: > on the positive side, oracle didn't ask us to pay for it yet.. > consider their reputation of milking what they bought > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Hasanuddin Abu Bakar <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Fast result, it doesn't work on windows server 2008 x64. instant error >> on guest boot up. Poor beta quality. It should be unreleased or alpha >> or something like that before they can call it beta. >> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=30344 >> >> >> >> >> Hasanuddin Abu Bakar >> ------------------------------- >> Ubuntu embedded developer/tester >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/bizkut >> >> Get FireGPG for your Firefox! http://getfiregpg.org >> >> PGP Public Key >> http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xC5A1B11965D43C5C >> >> >> >> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Hasanuddin Abu Bakar >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > So Oracle owns VirtualBox. How do you think about this guys? >> > >> > VirtualBox Version 3.2.0 is a major update. The following major new >> > features were added: >> > • Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation, >> > the product is now called Oracle VM VirtualBox and all references were >> > changed without impacting compatibility. >> > • Experimental support for Mac OS X guests >> > • Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the amount of RAM >> > used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see the manual for more information) >> > • CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove) and certain >> > Windows guests (hot-add only) (see the manual for more information) >> > • New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using >> > large pages can improve performance (see the manual for more >> > information); also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now >> > supported (if nested paging is enabled with VT-x, real mode and >> > protected mode without paging code runs faster, which mainly speeds up >> > guest OS booting) >> > • Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running >> > • Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI (see the manual >> > for more information) >> > • USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience if no >> > Guest Additions are available >> > • LsiLogic SAS controller emulation >> > • RDP video acceleration >> > • NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage >> > • Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications from >> > the host system >> > • OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings >> > that are not part of the base OVF standard >> > >> > http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30287 >> > >> > >> > Hasanuddin Abu Bakar >> > ------------------------------- >> > Ubuntu embedded developer/tester >> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/bizkut >> > >> > Get FireGPG for your Firefox! http://getfiregpg.org >> > >> > PGP Public Key >> > http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xC5A1B11965D43C5C >> > >> >> -- >> Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ >> >> Facebook Fan page >> >> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 >> >> http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >> Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en > > -- > Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ > > Facebook Fan page > > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 > > http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en -- Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en
