The OpenSolaris Governing Board annual election will be held soon. For details, see the election web page.  

Don't Lose Your Vote!  Only those Core Contributors who have validated their accounts with the new opensolaris.org authentication application can vote.  

Facilitator Instructions  The deadline for the granting of Core Contributor status for voting in this election is Sunday February 14, 23:59 hrs US/Pacific.  

Join the Annual Meeting of Members  The 2010 Annual Meeting of OpenSolaris members will be held on Thursday, February 25, at 12:00 noon US/Pacific until quorum is reached. Join the #opensolaris-meeting channel on the FreeNode IRC network for live Q&A. All voters are urged to join the IRC channel at least once in this period.

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We’re developing an operating system that provides a rich, coherent platform for building and running applications.

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Open Source

The majority of the OpenSolaris code base is distributed under an OSI-approved open source license. Code based on existing open source projects continues to be available under its current license(s), and some binary-only components are covered under the OpenSolaris Binary License.

Compatible

The OpenSolaris code base supports systems that use SPARC® and x86 families of processor architectures: UltraSPARC®, SPARC64, AMD64, Pentium, and Xeon EM64T. View the OpenSolaris Hardware Compatibility List (HCL).

Community-Driven

The OpenSolaris community develops a wealth of technologies ranging from storage software and ZFS, to comprehensive system analysis tools like DTrace.

Our community represents a wide variety of developers, administrators, instructors, and students around the world. Here are some ways people are getting involved, and here are some community contributions to multiple code consolidations. Everyone has something to contribute, so we welcome your participation.

Join In

Our new network-based package management system, IPS, which is included in the OpenSolaris OS LiveCD, needs your package contributions. Join the Software Porters Community or the F/OSS Package Base Project to engage package reviewers and find out how you can help.