SUN and Intel are jointly working on a lot of aspects of making OpenSolaris work better on Intel platforms including improving the xVM virtualization and adding optimizations for the upcoming Nehalem architecture. Read more at the InternetNews site.

The OpenSolaris project, which has been slowly gaining momentum over the past year, issued its first official release last week. Designed with an emphasis on usability and easy installation, OpenSolaris aims to provide a complete desktop platform for users and developers built on top of Sun's Solaris kernel.