Mobile Computing News

Recently, Sun and Toshiba have teamed up and signed an agreement, according to which Sun will pre-install the latest version of its operating system, known as OpenSolaris, in some of the selected models of Toshiba laptops. OpenSolaris is a flagship product of Sun and is recommended worldwide for achieving better efficiency and productivity. It is designed for use on desktops, as well as on servers or in any type of high performance computing environment.

Jim McHugh, Sun’s vice president of data-centre software commented, “Toshiba and Sun are announcing that we’re going to pre-configure and optimize OpenSolaris for certain Toshiba models.” The notebooks running on Sun’s OS are scheduled to launch in the US first but are expected to enter into the UK market as well.

OpenSolaris features a unique application called Time Slider. It’s basically a slide made in Graphical User Interface (GUI) which can be used to access previous versions of any type of file easily. The operating system automatically takes ZFS snapshots and presents them in an organised manner in a standard graphical window. ZFS is the file system which OpenSolaris uses, just like Windows XP use NTFS file system. One can easily browse through the complete life cycle of the source code using Time Slider. This way the developers can have better access to code repositories and reuse them efficiently whenever needed.