Oracle discontinued OpenSolaris in favour of developing the next generation of Solaris officially confirming it will launching Solaris 11 Express towards the end of 2010. the new binary distribution with a propitiatory flavour will spring board an enhanced Oracle application portfolio aimed at data enterprise to compete with the products from competitors such as IBM. Oracles announcement put an end to speculation as to the future of opensolaris.This left many customers and the Opensource community around Opensolaris about what comes next.
One major problem with using Opensolaris was the lack of drivers for mobile 3G modems However with the development of tethering on Android (Froyo 2.2 and above) Openindiana can now been used very easily with laptops on the 3G/4G networks. In Android go to settings,wireless networks,check the boxes marked tethering and mobile networks.This will create a mobile hotspot from your Android Phone. In OI go to the network section at the top right of the screen and manually select the HTC network in this case.You may have to wait a few seconds for it to configure. A notification will show at the top of your screen to show you are connected to the 3 G network via your Android phone.
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