Projects

OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris is an open source project created by Sun Microsystems to build a developer community around the Solaris Operating System technology.

Linux-VServer

Linux-VServer provides virtualization for GNU/Linux systems. This is accomplished by kernel-level isolation. It allows multiple virtual units to run at once. Those units are sufficiently isolated to guarantee the required security, but utilize available resources efficiently, as they run on the same kernel.

illumos

A community derivative of the OS/Net consolidation from OpenSolaris.

Nexenta

Nexenta Operating System is a free and open source operating system combining the OpenSolaris kernel with GNU application userland. Nexenta Operating System runs on Intel/AMD 32/64bit hardware and is distributed as a single installable CD. Upgrades and binary packages not included on the CD can be ... [More] installed from NexentaOS repository using Advanced Packaging Tool. In addition, source based software components can be downloaded from network repositories available at Debian/GNU Linux and Ubuntu Linux. [Less]

Linux Containers

Linux Containers (LXC), provides the ability to group and isolate of a set of processes in a jail by virtualizing and accounting the kernel resources. It is similar to Linux-Vserver or Openvz.

AuroraUX

AuroraUX is an operating system distribution based on the OpenSolaris kernel source base. The goal of the AuroraUX project is to create a high reliability core operating system using the US Department of Defense-developed Ada programming language. While it is meant to be minimalistic and used as a ... [More] base for other distributions, it will also be functional as an operating system in itself. #auroraux @ irc.freenode.net [Less]

SmartOS

SmartOS: The Complete Modern Operating System SmartOS incorporates the four most revolutionary OS technologies of the past decade — Zones, ZFS, DTrace and KVM — into a single operating system, providing an arbitrarily observable, highly multi-tenant environment built on a reliable ... [More] , enterprise-grade storage stack. With the introduction of KVM in SmartOS, you no longer have to give up the power of an enterprise-grade operating system in order to run legacy applications and stacks. SmartOS turns any server into a highly efficient hosting platform for multi-tenant, machine-to-machine, or storage applications. SmartOS offers unique, innovative tools for application developers, service providers and data center operators – tuned and hardened for modern datacenter deployment. [Less]

StormOS

StormOS is the first distribution based on Nexenta Core Platform 2.0 RC1 which combines the power of the Solaris kernel with the ease of use of Ubuntu. StormOS aims to be a lightweight OS with everything the average user would want out-of-the-box.

illumian

illumos kernel with debian packaging

rkanalyzer

RKAnalyzerRKAnalyzer is a kernel level rootkit analyzer and defender using Hardware Virtualization Techniques, based on the BitVisor Project(A VMM developed by Tsukuba University and open-sourced under BSD License). It tries to monitor kernel level rootkits' actions and log them. What differs ... [More] RKAnalyzer with tranditional detection softwares(i.e. Rootkit Revealer, IceSword) is that RKAnalyzer actively intercepts rootkit actions, rather than reacting to rootkit after already infected. Also, RKAnalyzer support analysis mode, which differs from defend mode by presenting a much more transparent environment, in which rootkit would consider itself running without being monitored. Updates2009.12.22 Realtime protection against DKOM added!!! Now FuTo will fail under RKAnalyzer, huh:) How To UseInstallation and Bootup Guide Build and Load Probes Test with practical rootkits! SOLVED issuesCritical Static Data Area Protection(Optimized to work under MP Systems) Kernel Symbol Parsing Memory Mapping Attacks(MDL attacks in Windows) TODO issuesImprove DKOM Protections Better method to identify malicious memory access from normal memory access [Less]