Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 16th Nov 2005 01:51 UTC, submitted by Samuel Kielek
Oracle selects the Solaris 10 Operating System as its preferred Open Source 64-bit development and deployment environment.
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2005-11-15
Missed this:
> Solaris runs oss software just fine.
Mostly, yes. I have a full GNU development environment on a Solaris box here, although we use Sun's assembler. We still support customers with Suns, although I've just remembered we have a pile of SPARC 20s and 5s in our storage that have come back from customers. We replaced them with (ugh) Windows servers. Not by our choice.
Maybe I'll make a Jabber server out of one some day, just for fun. Probably not on Solaris, though.
Solaris was missing some modern libraries, features and interfaces in 5.9 (such as a random device, in the standard distribution), I haven't been able to install S10 yet to see if they've added them.
From OpenSSH, for example:
"WARNING: the operating system that you are using does not appear to support either the getpeereid() API nor the SO_PEERCRED getsockopt() option. These facilities are used to enforce security checks to prevent unauthorised connections to ssh-agent. Their absence increases the risk that a malicious user can connect to your agent."