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OpenSolaris Install / Live CD

This item includes a live and install OpenSolaris disc. It will allow you to both boot straight off the disc into the OpenSolaris desktop without touching your hard drive or interfering with your current operating system, or you can use the disc to install OpenSolaris on your hard drive!

OpenSolaris is an open source operating system based on Sun Microsystems' Solaris. It is also the name of the project initiated by Sun to build a developer and user community around it.

OpenSolaris is derived from the Unix System V Release 4 codebase, with significant modifications made by Sun since it bought the rights to that code in 1994. It is the only open source System V derivative available. Open sourced components are snapshots of the latest Solaris release under development. Sun has announced that future versions of its commercial Solaris operating system will be based on technology from the OpenSolaris project.

OpenSolaris comes with:
OPENOFFICE a full feature office suite similar to Microsoft Office, which is COMPLETELY COMPATIBLE with MICROSOFT OFFICE allowing you KEEP all your MS WORD DOCUMENTS, EXCEL and POWERPOINT.
FIREFOX the ultra popular web browser and a slew of other software too long to list here!

Also Included:

OpenBSD Install CD

OpenBSD is a Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a Unix derivative developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It was forked from NetBSD by project leader Theo de Raadt in late 1995. The project is widely known for the developers' insistence on open source code and quality documentation; uncompromising position on software licensing; and focus on security and code correctness. The project is coordinated from de Raadt's home in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Its logo and mascot is a pufferfish named Puffy.

OpenBSD includes a number of security features absent or optional in other operating systems and has a tradition of developers auditing the source code for software bugs and security problems. The project maintains strict policies on licensing and prefers the open source BSD license and its variants—in the past this has led to a comprehensive license audit and moves to remove or replace code under licenses found less acceptable.

As with most other BSD-based operating systems, the OpenBSD kernel and userland programs, such as the shell and common tools like cat and ps, are developed together in a single source repository. Third-party software is available as binary packages or may be built from source using the ports tree.