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Sun Microsystems is taking its first public steps toward the delivery of its binary distribution of the OpenSolaris open source Unix operating system that underpins its Solaris Unix distribution by putting out the OpenSolaris Developer Edition. The software is the first milestone toward the delivery of a full OpenSolaris binary distribution in early 2008.  Full story »

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