The LXF Test: OpenSolaris 2008.05
OpenSolaris is an open-source project based on (some of) the Solaris operating system code, and sponsored by Sun, but being developed independently. The main aim of the project is to create a downloadable codebase. Currently, though, there's a Live CD/install image available which gives you a full OpenSolaris distro - a project which arose after Ian Murdoch (founder of Debian) was hired by Sun in 2007 to head "Project Indiana". OpenSolaris 2008.05 was released in May 2008. It is, as advertised, a full-featured distro, which includes the GNOME desktop and the ZFS filesystem (which does snapshots and some other interesting things - more on that below).
It's released under the CDDL (an open source copyleft license based on the Mozilla Public License), and can be downloaded from the OpenSolaris website. The majority of the source code is fully accessible, but some components are only available in binary form (under the OpenSolaris Binary License).
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