OpenSolaris for System z

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OpenSolaris for System z
IBM System z
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    (1991)
  • z/VSE (2005)
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OpenSolaris for System z is a discontinued

mainframe computers
.

History

OpenSolaris is based on

Solaris, which was originally released by Sun Microsystems in 1991. Sun released the bulk of the Solaris system source code in OpenSolaris on 14 June 2005, which made it possible for developers to create other OpenSolaris distributions. Sine Nomine Associates began a project to bring OpenSolaris to the IBM mainframe in July, 2006.[2]
The project was named Sirius (in analogy to the Polaris project to port OpenSolaris to PowerPC). In April, 2007, Sine Nomine presented an initial progress report at IBM's System z Technical Expo conference.

At the

Las Vegas, Nevada in late 2007, Sine Nomine demonstrated OpenSolaris running on IBM System z under z/VM. It was there that David Boyes of Sine Nomine stated that OpenSolaris for System z would be available "soon."[3]

At the SHARE conference on 13 August 2008, Neale Ferguson of Sine Nomine Associates presented an update on the progress of OpenSolaris for System z. This presentation included a working demonstration of OpenSolaris for System z. During this presentation he stated that while OpenSolaris is "not ready for prime-time" they hoped to have a version available to the public for testing "in a matter of weeks rather than months."[4]

In October, 2008, Sine Nomine Associates released the first "prototype" (it lacks a number of features such as

open source license
terms as OpenSolaris for other platforms. All source code is available; there are no OCO (object code only) modules.

The port uses

LPAR) without the z/VM hypervisor at Version 5.3 level or later. Also, because OpenSolaris uses a new network DIAGNOSE instruction, PTF VM64466 or VM64471 must be applied to z/VM to provide support for that instruction.[7] On 18 November 2008, IBM authorized the use of IFL processors to run OpenSolaris for System z workloads.[8]

The Register reported in March 2010 an email from an insider saying that:[1]

The SystemZ port of Solaris is dead. Oracle pulled all plugs and refused to further help the authors to help. Critical parts are closed parts of libc.so.1, the core user land library which has closed source parts. Oracle now refuses to give precompiled binaries of newer versions of the closed parts to the SystemZ port community, effectively ending this port because the missing bits cannot be replicated or bypassed.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Gavin Clarke, 29 March 2010, Sun's IBM-mainframe flower wilts under Oracle's hard gaze, The Register
  2. ^ IBM Expresses Interest in OpenSolaris for System Z Project Archived 13 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Open Solaris on System Z demo part III, YouTube Video
  4. ^ Ferguson, Neale (2008). "OpenSolaris on System z". San Jose, CA. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ Sipples, Timothy (16 October 2008). "OpenSolaris for System z Now Available". Retrieved 16 October 2008.
  6. ^ "OpenSolaris Project: Systemz". Archived from the original on 29 February 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2008.
  7. ^ "OpenSolaris for System z". Retrieved 16 October 2008.
  8. ^ "Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) authorization is expanded to include the OpenSolaris operating system" (PDF). 18 November 2008. Retrieved 19 November 2008.

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