August 15, 2011 — Joyent, a company well-known to RWW readers for its backing of Node.js is announcing a step in a different direction today: the company has ported Linux KVM to its SmartOS offering and is making SmartOS available as a ready to install distribution and putting all the source on GitHub.
SmartOS is a “highly specialized distribution of Illumos.” Illumos, as you might recall, is the fork of the OpenSolaris project that sprang up after Oracle snarfed Sun and decided to shutter OpenSolaris. Read more
