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| 2008-11-07 |
Solaris Release: Solaris 10 10/08 |
| Sun Microsystems has announced the availability of an update build of Solaris 10, release 10/08: "Sun announced the latest version of the Solaris 10 operating system - Solaris 10 10/08. The new version builds on the core strengths of the Solaris 10 to help customers maximize asset usage and systems performance, manage datacenter complexity, preserve business continuity and reduce costs. Solaris 10 10/08 includes numerous product updates and enhancements, several of which were done through the OpenSolaris community. New features in Solaris 10 10/08: the ZFS file system has been enhanced with recent work from the OpenSolaris community; Solaris 10's virtualization technologies, such as Solaris Containers, have been enhanced with new features; Sun and Intel continue to collaborate to help ensure Solaris 10 will support Intel's latest Intel Xeon processor line." Read the release announcement and press release for further details. CD and DVD images of Solaris 10 10/08 are available for free download from Sun Microsystem's download page (registration required). |
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| 2005-09-16 |
Review: Opening Solaris |
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| LinuxPlanet has a good, comprehensive write-up about Solaris 10. The conclusion? It's better than Linux: "Despite the obvious driver problems experienced on commodity x86 hardware, there is not much else to criticize about Solaris 10/OpenSolaris. ... Is it a viable alternative to Linux? Absolutely. In the last six months I've had no problems with Solaris 10 crashing, locking up or exhibiting odd behaviour. By comparison, my Gentoo-based systems have not been so well behaved. A SPARC server 20 running Gentoo simply freezes after about six days and requires a hardware reset. My PC-based Gentoo installation often freezes if there's an NFS issue on the network and I have to reboot it." The 8-page review with screenshots starts here. |
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| 2005-06-14 |
News: Opening Day for OpenSolaris |
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| The Solaris operating system is now an open source project: "I'm happy to tell you that the OpenSolaris project is now open, and we welcome your participation at our new community site: opensolaris.org. When you visit the site you'll see we have the OpenSolaris source code, a new source browser, build tools, documentation, a community portal, mailing lists, blogs, and much more. There are many ways for developers to immediately start contributing to the project, such as testing code, fixing bugs, documenting processes, and suggesting RFEs. You can also follow the technical conversations among Solaris engineers and the community on the long-term co-development model. More information is available in the announcement and release notes, as well as this blog entry by Sun's Jim Grisanzio. The first community release of Solaris Express can be downloaded from the Sun Download Center (registration required). |
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| 2005-03-03 |
Review of Solaris 10 |
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| OSNews has published a new review of Solaris 10: "A lot of noise has been made about Sun's choice of GNOME as the alternative Graphical User Interface, replacing OpenWindows. Then with Build 69, Sun introduces the Java Desktop System (JDS) to Solaris 10 bringing a new look and functionality. As I tested the OS, I started to really like JDS, it is clean, simple and easy to navigate. Many would say that it has a Windows look and feel, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Sun is trying to capture the Enterprise desktop with JDS, as opposed to the typical Unix user. Most Windows users would easily be able to use JDS without much training, and Sun has provided the tools necessary to further customize JDS to meet specific requirements." The 3-page review starts here.
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| 2005-02-25 |
First Look at Solaris 10 |
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| The maintainers of Mad Penguin have decided to dip their toes into the world of UNIX proper and installed the recently released Solaris 10. Their conclusion? "Solaris 10 is a rather amazing OS. I learn quickly, but I was hard pressed to even tap the surface of Solaris. It is very fast, has new features that are revolutionary and old features that are not very well known, but deserve to be. Its hardware support could, and I think will, be improved, some software will be difficult to compile and it can be difficult to use at times when coming from other NIX. However, any relatively knowledgeable user should give it a shot. You may be impressed." Visit this page to read the complete review.
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| September 2009 |
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At one point or another gamers can hit the wall when using other OS systems such as Linux and Mac, as Windows has always been renowned as the OS of choice for the gaming community. In a lot of cases this has changed somewhat over the last few years with the use of virtualization software that helps to bridge that gap, and it can be quite successful to a point. Of course, when you virtualize another OS you can lose some of the performance, than say running a game natively, and with slowdowns and bugs comes frustration. We have listed a few resources that we think are worth a mention for different types of gamers, both online multiplayer and single player, see what you think:
- World of Goo. This is a great puzzle game that will keep you busy for hours, there's also a free playable demo version.
- If you're a online poker enthusiast we can recommend you check out the pokerlistings.com Linux poker page, it has a list of poker apps that are compatible with your OS.
- For the MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) crowds you could always take a look at Vendetta online, "thousands of people can play together, at the same time, in a single, persistent universe", sounds great!
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