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Important new releases now available:

OpenSolaris 2008.05

The OpenSolaris Operating System is a single distribution for desktop, server and HPC deployments based on the Solaris kernel and created through community collaboration. It features a new Image Packaging System (IPS), ZFS as the default filesystem, DTrace-enabled packages for extreme observability and performance tuning and more. Download.

NetBeans 6.1 and Early Access for PHP

This release extends language support beyond Java technology by providing a rich set of features for C/C++, JavaScript and the Ruby language, including Ruby on Rails. One of the downloads available is an Early Access preview of support for PHP. Advance versions of new modules, such as JavaScript debugger, support of ClearCase, AXIS, and Hibernate are available as separate plugins.11. Download.

VirtualBox 1.6

This is a major update and includes:

• Solaris and Mac OS X host support
• Seamless windowing for Linux and Solaris guests
• Guest Additions for Solaris
• A webservice API
• SATA hard disk (AHCI) controller
• Experimental Physical Address Extension (PAE) support

VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware targeted at server, desktop and embedded use. It is the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is open source. Download.

GlassFish Version 3 Technology Preview 2

A milestone release of the GlassFish v3 Application Server, TP2 is not a full, feature-complete application server and is not suitable for production deployments. It is suitable for experimentation and exploration. This release contains a subset of all features in the GlassFish v3 Application Server and of the technologies in the Java EE 5 platform, which means it has just the core v3 modules, Java EE web tier technologies, the Java Persistence API, and non-Java programming language containers. Download.

Dirtracer v 6.0.6

Sun Gathering Debug Data Script dirtracer - collects all parts of Sun Java System Directory Server environment that are useful for debugging, such as log files, database, information platform information, and others. Available for Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86, Linux and HP-UX

The Dirtracer Corner blog offers some insight on the major changes in this edition.

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