Projects

OpenSolaris

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

FreeNAS

FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, Unison, RSYNC protocols, local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5), ZFS with a Full WEB configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 32MB once installed on Compact Flash, hard drive or USB key.

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]

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]

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.

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]

EON ZFS Storage

EON stands for Embedded Operating system/Networking. It is the first embedded Solaris ZFS (Zettabyte File System) NAS (Network Attached Storage) distribution based on Opensolaris. It is a RAM based live/install image which runs from CD/DVD, USB or CF (compact flash) and Disk on Module. The appliance ... [More] image provides a high performance 32 or 64-bit storage solution built on ZFS, using regular disks which eliminates the use of costly RAID arrays, controllers and volume management software. EON focuses on using a small memory footprint so it can run from RAM while maximizing the remaining free memory (L1 ARC) for ZFS performance. Running from RAM adds the advantage of being one hard disk greener in power consumption and removes the OS install disk as a point of failure. And if your hardware fai [Less]

maczfs

The Apple-sponsored ZFS implementation, first available as a read-only kernel extension in 10.5 and later in the developer builds of 10.6, was unceremoniously yanked from the shipping version of Snow Leopard (10.6), after a lengthy hiatus from the open-source project hosted at the (probably now ... [More] defunct http://zfs.macosforge.org). A nabble backup of the old mailing list is available at http://n3.nabble.com/Mac-OS-X-ZFS-Discuss-f19757.html Since ZFS adopted a dedicated following under Mac OS X, there's a desire to keep this project going; this code project will be used to record issues and ongoing development (if any) of this extension. Please note that ZFS is licensed under Sun's CDDL. [Less]

MilaX

MilaX is a small OpenSolaris Live CD distro based on Solaris Nevada. You can run it from miniCD, bootable business card or USB flash drive. It can be installed to hard disk through a ZFS-boot installation. Available for both x86 and SPARC platforms.