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Sun Continues Quest To Provide Linux Apps Under Solaris

Thom Holwerda 2005-06-25 Solaris 22 Comments

Recent technology moves toward virtualization have led some industry insiders to question Sun's commitment to letting users run Linux applications under Solaris. However, executives say the company isn't backing off its home-grown efforts.

Building, installing OpenSolaris in 100 pictures

Submitted by adamt 2005-06-22 Solaris 28 Comments

This site has created a rather large collection of OpenSolaris (Nevada build 16) screenshots. Screenshots guide you through the installation process, configuraton, kernel compiling, BFU-ing, etc.

Solaris Express 6/2005 Released

Submitted by Daniel Price 2005-06-21 Solaris 24 Comments

Solaris Express 6/2005 (a.k.a. Nevada Build 15) was posted today, providing a host of improvements including aggressive use of large pages, desktop enhancements, the "Nemo" (GLDv3) network driver framework, DTrace enhancements, and a host of bug fixes. You can obtain a free download. An overview of new features is available.

First OpenSolaris x86 Public Distro

Submitted by Javier O. Augusto 2005-06-18 Solaris 39 Comments

Wondering what's up with OpenSolaris after its launch? Well, we have spotted what seems to be the first public distro of OpenSolaris on the wild. Joerg Schilling has released SchilliX, an OpenSolaris-based UNIX Live CD and distribution for X86, AMD64 and EMT64. It is based on Solaris 11 (Nevada) Build 17+.

Secret Life of the OpenSolaris code

Submitted by george 2005-06-16 Solaris 6 Comments

Looks like ZDNet Australia has gone trawling for dirty words in the OpenSolaris code. While they didn't find much there were some pearlers.

Sun has second thoughts about Linux on Solaris

Eugenia Loli 2005-06-15 Solaris 31 Comments

Sun Microsystems is guiding the spotlight away from a once-prominent feature of Solaris 10. Elsewhere, Solaris Engineering: huge amount of technical articles. Sun Microsystems is revamping the start-up process for its Solaris operating system, scrapping an awkward, elderly approach for one the company promises will be faster, more familiar and more useful on a wide variety of computers.

Solaris engineers offer personal source-code tours

Eugenia Loli 2005-06-15 Solaris 27 Comments

Sun Microsystems chose to employ the human touch when it introduced more than 5 million lines of Solaris source code onto the Internet on Tuesday.

Opensolaris.org now live

Submitted by Dan Price 2005-06-14 Solaris 106 Comments

The opensolaris.org community site is now live. Source code (some 20,000 files) is available for download, torrent and perusal. Mailing lists, a project overview and a community portal are also live.

Sun begins open-source Solaris era

Eugenia Loli 2005-06-14 Solaris 77 Comments

Sun Microsystems is expected to release Solaris as open-source software Tuesday, a centerpiece of the company's plan to regain lost relevance and fend of rivals Red Hat, IBM and Microsoft.

OpenSolaris live next week

Submitted by bill 2005-06-08 Solaris 68 Comments

According to this CNET report next week is the launch date for OpenSolaris. "After having dipped a Solaris toe into the open-source waters last January, Sun Microsystems will take the full plunge next week. The company's OpenSolaris effort will go live early next week, a Sun representative said.

Solaris 10 – UNIX for the people?

Guest post by Matthias Breiter 2005-05-25 Solaris 186 Comments

With a (relatively) big advertising campaign SUN promoted Solaris 10 (also known as SunOS 5.10). Referring to SUN, with the "revolutionary" JAVADesktop 2 and a lot of new features and improvements, Solaris 10 should be the best OS today. Solaris is free for SPARC owners and for private use or evaluation purpose it's also freely available on the x86. While Solaris actually is kind of a legend, I thought "Hu, this could be an interesting alternative on my PC". Thought, went on and downloaded the ISOs. Read on to see how an average user (me) have experienced Solaris.

Solaris 10 x86 is going to use GRUB

Submitted by Robert Milkowski 2005-05-23 Solaris 90 Comments

Solaris x86 will use GRUB as its boot manager on x86/x64 platforms. See screenshots here.

Solaris Containers and Zones

Submitted by Robert Escue 2005-05-19 Solaris 6 Comments

A new Sun BluePrints article discusses the differences between Containers and Zones, and how to get the most out of them. The pdf file is located here.

Sun delays major Solaris features indefinitely over deficiencies

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-13 Solaris 91 Comments

Sun Microsystems has delayed the release of two major features the company has trumpeted as reasons to try its latest version of the Solaris operating system. Eric Schrock, a Solaris kernel programmer, said on his blog in April that he's "completely redesigning the ZFS commands from the ground up" after finding some deficiencies.

Thinking about porting projects from Solaris to Linux on x86?

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-12 Solaris 26 Comments

Among the flavors of UNIX, Solaris is considered to be the closest to Linux, so before starting a port of large Unix-based application to Linux, the OS-dependent code is generally picked up from Solaris. But for migration purposes, differences can arise in the areas that depend on the architecture, memory maps, threading, or some specific areas like system administration or natural language support.

Solaris 10, a new Sun or just another Unix?

Guest post by Andy Satori 2005-05-11 Solaris 57 Comments

With the release of Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems is attempting to revive some of the strength that the Solaris name once carried in the world of unix workstations and servers. At one point, Sun was the dominant name in commercial unix hardware and software. Then came the crash of the dot-com marketplace, so many of whom had heavy investment into Sun in both the hardware & software market.

Enforcing a Two Man Rule Using Solaris 10 RBAC

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-28 Solaris 22 Comments

The "two man rule" (also sometimes called the "four eyes rule") has its origins in military protocol although for quite some time it has been welcomed into the stockpile of IT security controls used by organizations around the world. The "two man rule" specifies that there must be two individuals that must act in concert in order to perform some action.

Review: Solaris 10 – Coming Along Nicely

Guest post by Will Senn 2005-04-26 Solaris 53 Comments

Wow! With Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems has done a marvelous job of bringing Solaris fully into the x86 world. Gone are the days when Solaris only runs on Sun hardware or when it only runs well on Sun hardware. Solaris 10 comes with greatly expanded off-the-shelf x86 hardware compatibility and a license that is hard to beat. It's a binary right to use and Open Solaris, the open source version is soon to come. IT Managers that have been wanting to bring a stable, scalable Operating Environment into their network infrastructures, but who have been unwilling to commit to the Sun hardware platform, for various reasons, are now free, pun intended, to bring Solaris on board and to run it on the hardware of their choice.

Solaris Express 4/2005 Released

Submitted by Dan Price 2005-04-25 Solaris 57 Comments

Solaris Express 4/2005 (a.k.a. Nevada Build 10) was posted today, providing improved performance, X.org 6.8.2 final, and a host of bug fixes. You can obtain a free download. An overview of new features is available.

Solaris 10 Reviewed

Submitted by Sebastian Flyte 2005-04-21 Solaris 59 Comments

Significant performance, availability and feature enhancements make Solaris 10 an automatic choice for existing Sun customers. But as an alternative to Linux, it doesn’t yet deliver, says ZDNet.

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