This week I read about three OS’s releasing. The first one, is not a surprise. OpenBSD jumps to the 4.2 version. OpenBSD releases one stable release every six months. We have new install method (there is a ISO image with everything to do a default install), and, of course, new ports and improvement of hardware supporting.
The great new of the week comes from OpenSolaris. The Project Indiana has released the OpenSolaris Developer Preview. The announcement comes with controversy because the name. The name related to OpenSolaris came from the Sun’s marketing staff and not from the OpenSolaris community. But even with some grey clouds over and a GPL v3 licensing that it’s taking too much time, to tasting the OS is worth it because ZFS and DTrace. Get it!
Via OS News I read about OpenVMS 8.3 and VMS 30th anniversary. Despite its name, OpenVMS is not a free OS. But it is a very interesting OS that lost importance in the market because bad enterprise policy by DEC and Compaq first, and HP now. Sometimes HP tried to kill the Alpha platform, in another times they seemed to relaunch it. I think the best way for OpenVMS is the same way of Solaris: making it free (as in freedom). Meanwhile, we have FreeVMS…