Завязался разговор про то, как все круто устроено в linux – и в том числе про “живые” обновления системы… Ну или почти “живые” – с минимальным downtime, на конфигурациях, пригодных для продуктивной эксплуатации. Короче, было просто любопытно послушать другую точку зрения. В результате завязался небольшой холи-вар на этот предмет. Я остался строго при своем.

If you’re one of the many people out there who are intrigued by OpenSolaris, and want to try it out for yourselves, but are worried about how to go about doing it, you’re in the right place. In this article, I will show you step by step how to start with a machine with no OS (or running windows) and download OpenSolaris binaries and install it. Then create a 2nd partition using OpenSolaris LiveUpgrade, download OpenSolaris source, compile it and install it on the 2nd partition. In the end, I will walk you through how to modify the source and install the modified kernel on the 2nd partition so that your original OpenSolaris partition and workspace don’t get impacted while you are experimenting with modifying the kernel.

xVM is the intersection of virtualization and management. OpenxVM is a community hub for a number of related open source projects that together create the next generation of data center infrastructure.

Mac OS X 10.5 (Darwin 9.0) includes a large number of open source projects. These are listed below as they become available. Each project is available to browse online or download as an archive. To browse the sources, click on the project name in the table below. To download an archive, click on “.tar.gz” in the same row as the project. Projects which were modified in this release are listed in bold.