The OpenSolaris JeOS has finally joined the ranks along with the many, many different Ubuntu JeOS revisions listed in the Virtual Appliance Marketplace on the VMWare website. Although following the first link to the OSOL JeOS in this post eventually leads you to a download page that takes you back to the same link that I have posted in the JeOS.box, it's still a good place to grab a quick look at the general overview and tech specs of this JeOS condensed in to one small little place. There's even a section for review (which is currently empty) so you can either read or submit your own experiences working with this JeOS.

This visibility will be good for promoting the consideration of OSOL to the virtual appliance community, but currently this JeOS is in a prototype phase which may steer more serious app developers away until it's officially supported by Sun, as described on their website...

"Since the reduced set of pre-installed packages is not yet qualified as an official starting point in testing of the Sun-managed OpenSolaris distribution, this image is positioned as a **prototype**. A future version of the image may be considered an officially supported starting point once the installed package set is considered to be a supported combination and building and testing of the image are integrated into the Sun-managed OpenSolaris release process." - OpenSolaris JeOS Project Page

Nonetheless, it should draw more attention to the active community, which has been recently updating their Wiki as well. One interesting tidbit on the wiki is that the OpenSolaris JeOS Prototype does include both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures in a single VM image, which is not mentioned on their virtual appliance marketplace page.

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