After nearly a year’s delay, Sun Microsystems Inc. has released software designed to let its Solaris operating system run Linux applications without any modification. The software, formerly called Project Janus, but now rewritten and renamed BrandZ, was released to Sun’s OpenSolaris community last week.
With the release of BrandZ the project has expanded somewhat, and the technology also could be used to run operating systems such as FreeBSD or Apple Computer Inc.’s open-source Darwin project, said Nils Nieuwejaar, the Sun engineer who is technical lead on the project.
