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Solaris Operating System

Last Update: Tuesday 2 June 2009 04:24 GMT




Solaris is a computer operating system, the proprietary Unix variant developed by Sun Microsystems. Early versions, based on BSD UNIX, were called SunOS. The shift to a System V code base in SunOS 5 was marked by changing the name to Solaris 2. Earlier versions were retroactively named Solaris 1.x. After version 2.6, Sun dropped the "2." from the name. Solaris consists of the SunOS UNIX base operating system plus a graphical user environment. Solaris is written in a platform-independent manner and is available for SPARC and x86 processors (including x86_64). Historically, Solaris used to be a proprietary operating system, however, starting from version 10, its licence has changed and the product is now distributed free of charge for any system or purpose, while its source code is available from OpenSolaris.org under a license approved by Open Source Initiative (OSI).


Solaris Summary
Distribution Solaris Operating System
Home Page http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/
Mailing Lists --
User Forums http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/discussions/
http://www.solarisforums.com/
Documentation http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/solaris.10
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/
Screenshots  
Download Mirrors http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp
Bug Tracker http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/index.jsp
Related Web Sites OpenSolarisSunHELPLearning SolarisServerSolarisFreeware for SolarisBlastwaveSolaris x86GENUNIXLinux to Solaris Diary
Reviews 10: BlogspotBlogspotLinuxPlanetThe RegisterOSNewsInfoWorldOSNewsZDNetPC MagazineeWEEKIT Utility PipelineOSNewsNWFusionMad PenguinInformationWeekServerWatch
9: InfoWorldPC Magazine
Where To Buy LinuxCD.org

Recent Related News
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 • 2005-09-16: Review: Opening Solaris
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 • 2005-02-25: First Look at Solaris 10

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  • Notes: In case where multiple versions of a package are shipped with a distribution, only the default version appears in the table. For indication about the GNOME version, please check the 'libgnome' and 'nautilus' packages. As per the Apache project's recommendations, apache 1.3.x is referred to as "apache", while apache 2.x is referred to as "httpd".
  • Colour scheme: green text = latest stable version, red text = development or beta version. The function determining beta versions is not 100% reliable due to a wide variety of versioning schemes.

Feature 10
Release Date 2005/01/31
Price (US$)  
CDs  
Free Download ISO, registration required
Installation Graphical
Default Desktop CDE/GNOME
Package Management pkgadm
Office Suite StarOffice
Processor Architecture i386, sparc, x86_64
Journaled File Systems UFS
Multilingual de, en, es, fr, it, se
Asian Language Support cn, jp, kr, tw
Package 10
abiword (2.8.1) --
alsa-lib (1.0.21a) --
amarok (2.2.0) --
ati-driver (8.661)  
bind (9.6.1-P1) 9.2.4
compiz (0.8.4)  
cups (1.4.1) 1.1.21
db (4.8.24) 4.2.52
dhcp (4.1.0p1) --
emacs (23.1) 21.3
evolution (2.28.1) 1.4.6
firefox (3.5.5) --
freetype (2.3.11) 2.0.4
gcc (4.4.2) 3.4.2
gimp (2.6.7) 1.2.1
glibc (2.11) --
gnucash (2.2.9) --
gnumeric (1.8.4) --
gtk+ (2.18.3) 2.4.0
hal (0.5.13)  
httpd (2.2.14) 2.0.52
inkscape (0.46) --
jre (6u17)  
k3b (1.0.5) --
kdebase (4.3.3) 3.1.1
koffice (2.0.2) 1.2.1
Package 10
libgnome (2.28.0) 2.6.0
linux (2.6.31.5) --
module-init-tools (3.11.1) --
mono (2.4.2.3)  
MPlayer (1.0rc2) --
mysql (5.1.40) 4.0.15
nautilus (2.28.1) 2.6.1
NVIDIA (190.42)  
OpenOffice.org (3.1.1) --
openssh (5.3p1) --
openssl (0.9.8l) 0.9.7
perl (5.10.1) 5.8.4
php (5.3.0) 4.3.2
pidgin (2.6.3) 0.82.1
postfix (2.6.5) --
postgresql (8.4.1) --
Python (3.1.1) 2.2.3
qt-x11 (4.5.3) 3.1.1
samba (3.4.3) 3.0.4
sendmail (8.14.3) 8.13.3
thunderbird (2.0.0.23) --
udev (146) --
vim (7.2) 6.3
xfce (4.6.1) 3.8.16
xine-lib (1.1.16.3) --
xorg-server (1.7.1) 6.8.0

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