Sun Microsystems has announced its first supported version of the open-source OpenSolaris operating system. The project was created in 2005 by Sun aiming to build a developer community around its Solaris Operating System technology. The 2008.5 distribution has been made available and an official price list for support will become available on May 13.

The OpenSolaris distribution builds upon the strength of the Unix System V Release 4 codebase, with significant improvements by Sun. As such is the only open source System V-based operating system available. Solaris is also based on the same codebase.

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