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Sun Microsystems Opens Solaris Code
 By David Utter
Tuesday, the technology company published source code for an open source version of the Solaris operating system.
All of the code associated with Solaris 10 has been released. This includes the operating system, its networking, and its libraries. Downloads can be found online.
Sun has chosen the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) for the project. The license was approved by the Open Source Initiative.
Over 1,600 patents have been contributed to the project. One of the most advanced features of Solaris, called DTrace, has been included. Dtrace, or Dynamic Tracing, lets administrators observe, debug, and tune system behavior.
According to InternetNews, Sun hopes to benefit from developer work on the open source project. It has already said it will use innovations on the open side in future versions of Solaris.
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The infrastructure for contributions to the code tree has not been established yet. OpenSolaris will be developed under Sun's version of CVS called TeamWare. One executive at Sun anticipates a peer review process will decide what contributions will be added to the code base.
Components in Solaris that are based on open source projects will continue to be available under their current licenses. GPL utilities like bash and gcc will still be under the GPL, for example.
Nokia, Apple Working On Open Source Browser
By David Utter
The project will use components developed from the KDE Konqueror project that have been incorporated into the Safari browser.
Nokia announced at its Connection 2005 conference that it will continue its partnership with Apple, and develop a new mobile browser for the Series 60 platform.
Series 60, based on the Symbian OS for smartphones, has been licensed by numerous manufacturers. Samsung, LG, and Panasonic are among those that will have the new browser available for their phones in the first half of 2006.
Two particular components, WebCore and JavaScriptCore, will be at the heart of the new browser's functionality. These components have been built for Safari from code based on the KHTML and KJS features in KDE's Konqueror browser.
All the features currently present in the Series 60 browser will be available in the new product. Nokia expects to add more features to enhance the browsing experience for its users, too. According to a study Nokia conducted, over 50 percent of the data traffic from cellphones was generated by browsing.
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