ZDNet reports that Sun Microsystems has initiated beta testing for the next version of its Unix operating system, Solaris 9. The new version runs on Sun’s UltraSparc or Intel’s 32-bit processors, and includes new features to streamline software upgrades and manage system resources. The final version of Solaris 9 should be available to Sun customers some time in 2002 and it will also feature Gnome 2.0 (which released its first alpha version just yesterday) as the default desktop instead of CDE.
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The title of the news is a bit misleading.
Sun doesn’t send Solaris 9 beta out.
It’s available only for download not on CDs.
And it’s about 1 Gigabyte for download and requires to have 2 systems –
one should be set up as boot server.
I hate this new versioning scheme – is Sun trying to catch up with HP Unix in
version numbering ?