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Primary Languages
  • Chinese - Simplified
  • Chinese - Traditional
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
All Languages
  • All Primary Languages
  • Albanian
  • Arabic
  • Bulgarian
  • Catalan
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Icelandic
  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Macedonian
  • Maltese
  • Norwegian Bokmål
  • Norwegian Nynorsk
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Serbian
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Thai
  • Turkish
License Terms

The contents of the OpenSolaris™ 2008.05 Live Media Image are governed by the Common Development and Distribution License Version 1.0, with the exception of certain portions under other licenses (such as the OpenSolaris Binary License) as provided in the OpenSolaris Live Media License file included with the software and displayed when booting the Live Media Image. The additional software available from the OpenSolaris Package Repository and not included on the Live Media Image is governed by the licenses provided in the OpenSolaris Package Repository License file and/or in the individual software packages.
All of these licenses permit use, copying and redistribution of the software.

Mirrors

You can also get the ISO image, suitable for burning to a 700MiB CD or immediate use in VirtualBox, from a number of local mirrors. Thanks to those who have volunteered to provide mirror services around the world and spread the download of OpenSolaris 2008.05!