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Sun slams brakes on Red Hat open source claims
Sun Microsystems has responded to claims it is being left behind by an industry increasingly embracing the open source ethos by pointing out that a massive 420,000 people have applied for a licence to freely download and use Solaris 10 since it was released on January 31 this year. Read more »
Developer aims for Dtrace on FreeBSD
One of the most useful tidbits from the basket of code released into the public domain this year by Sun Microsystems is likely to make it to the FreeBSD platform. Read more »
DTrace reaches prime time on FreeBSD
A project to bring one of the most advanced features of Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system to the FreeBSD platform has started bearing fruit. Read more »
Mac OSX Leopard gets Sun's DTrace
Apple Computer have announced they will support DTrace, an open source analysing tool for developers in the release of OSX 10.5, code-named Leopard. Read more »
Sun begins open-source Solaris era
Sun Microsystems has released Solaris as open-source software, a move that's central to the company's plan to regain lost relevance and fend off rivals Red Hat, IBM and Microsoft. Read more »
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Developer spotlight: Bryan Cantrill
Bryan Cantrill is an engineer at Sun Microsystems responsible for the invention of DTrace, a dynamic tracing facility in Solaris 10 that can identify bottlenecks and increase system performance. Read more »
Q & A with Linus Torvalds
When Linus Torvalds successfully harnessed the talent of thousands of programmers to create Linux, the operating system that arguably suffered most was Sun Microsystems' Solaris. Read more »
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Social news start-up Streem shuts downSydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch. Read more »
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