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OpenSolaris Based Distributions

Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE)
Created by: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Platforms: SPARC, x86 and x64
Released every 2 weeks, this is an early preview of what will eventually become Solaris 11 (note: product name not confirmed ;-). Use this for access to the very latest features.

Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE)
Created by: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Platforms: SPARC, x86 and x64
Based on SXCE, this is officially released every 3 months. Developer support is available from Sun.

OpenSolaris Developer Preview
Created by: OpenSolaris community (mainly Sun)
Platforms: x86 and x64, (SPARC to follow)
The OpenSolaris Developer Preview is developer by Project Indiana and is designed to create an OpenSolaris dsitribution that will eventually become the OpenSolaris reference platform. It is designed to attract developers and users from other operating systems - with particular focus on luring Linux developers. It is currently the home of the new packaging system that Sun is developing for (Open)Solaris - the Image Packaging System (IPS).

Belenix
Created by: Moinak Ghosh
Platforms: x86 and x64
Designed as an OpenSolaris Live CD.

MarTUX
Created by: Martin Bochnig
Platforms: SPARC, x86 and x64
The first non-Sun OpenSolaris distro designed for SPARC machines.

Nexenta
Created by: Nexenta Systems Inc.
Platforms: x86 and x64
Combines the Solaris kernel and runtime with GNU userland.

Schillix
Created by: Jörg Schilling
Platforms: SPARC, x86 and x64
The first non-Sun OpenSolaris distribution - released on the same day that the OpenSolaris source code was first publicly released.

MilaX
Created by: Alexander R. Eremin
Platforms: x86, SPARC
Designed to be a "Damn Small Solaris", similar to the Damn Small Linux distro.