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At the [[SHARE]] conference on [[August 13]], [[2008]], Neale Ferguson of Sine Nomine Associates presented an update on the progress of OpenSolaris for System z. This presentation included a working demonstration of OpenSolaris for System z. During this presentation he stated that while OpenSolaris is "not ready for prime-time" they do hope to have a version available to the public for testing "in a matter of weeks rather than months."<ref name="Share2008">{{Citation |first = Neale |last = Ferguson |title = OpenSolaris on System z |year = 2008 |place = SHARE Summer 2008, San Jose, CA }}</ref>
In October, 2008, Sine Nomine Associates released the first "prototype" (it lacks a number of features such as DTrace
The port uses [[z/Architecture]] 64-bit addressing and therefore requires an [[IBM System z]] [[mainframe computers|mainframe]]. Because the port uses certain advanced processor instructions, it requires a [[System z9]] mainframe (or higher model) and will not run on older machines, at least not as currently compiled. It also requires the [[paravirtualization]] features provided by [[z/VM]]; it will not run on "bare metal" or in a logical partition ([[LPAR]]) without the z/VM hypervisor at Version 5.3 level or later.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://distribution.sinenomine.net/opensolaris/ |title=OpenSolaris for System z |accessdate=2008-10-16}}</ref> On [[November 18]], [[2008]], [[IBM]] authorized the use of [[Integrated Facility for Linux|IFL]] processors to run OpenSolaris for System z workloads.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/5/897/ENUS108-875/ENUS108-875.PDF |title=Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) authorization is expanded to include the OpenSolaris operating system |date=2008-11-18 |accessdate=2008-11-19 }}</ref>
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