Solaris Archive

Solaris 10 for SPARC/x86 is now available for download. Get it while it's hot.

A patent watchdog group is raising questions about the legal language behind Sun Microsystems' recent open source offering called OpenSolaris. The Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) is criticizing Sun and its CEO Scott McNealy for potentially misleading developers into thinking Sun's latest open source contribution is free of any legal land mines.

The source code to DTrace is now available for public download here, more info on a blog entry introducing the code here.

Sun Microsystems is about to take the next step in its plan to refurbish the reputation of its Solaris operating system in the eyes of a small but crucial group: programmers.

For some time now, Sun has been trying to push its way into non-proprietary Unix markets, and Solaris 10 is its crowning achievement. An abundance of innovative new features, mostly aimed at administrators rather than users, contributes further to Solaris 10's value proposition. An interesting balance of administrative features and support for new hardware implies Sun is trying hard to maintain its current niche, as well as move into server and workstation territories where Linux has encroached. Read more here.

The articles are: Q&A with the Solaris 10 Engineers and Solaris 10 Privileges.

Today Solaris Express 11/04 shipped. New in this release are the AMD64 kernel and userland (supporting Athlon64, Nocona and Opteron) and many other enhancements. A more complete listing is available here.

Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 may be powerful enough to power a data grid, but for real market growth, Sun is looking inward to the embedded space. Despite the hoopla at this month's announcement party to launch Solaris 10, the focus for the operating system has been outside the usual realm of server rooms and desktops. Solaris Express 11/04 will be build 72 and should be available on or around November 30. The big thing for this one is... 64 bit Solaris on AMD.''

For those interested in a deeper, more technical look at Solaris Zones, the Solaris team presented a detailed paper on Zones at USENIX's LISA '04 conference. The paper is available for download.

November, 15 2004. The Solaris 10/NC04Q4 Launch 2004. Dawn in San Jose, CA was a truly beautiful sight to behold on Monday. As the sun rose over the mountains and shed its light on the valley below - the city, which the night before had seemed so unimpressive, suddenly came to life in the shimmer of the sun's rays. It seemed a perfect morning for the launch of Sun's most ambitious project to date. The press and other attendees looked happy, hopeful. Sun's folks were excited - especially the engineers.

Sun's upping the ante against Linux with Solaris 10. First, it will be available free for download, with a pay-for-support model. Also, a feature called Project Janus allows users "to create a virtual container inside Solaris in which they can run Linux applications."

If you were expecting a sneak peak of an open source Solaris or to buy a commercial version next week when it launches, don't hold your breath. Although Sun Microsystems said it is on track to officially launch Solaris 10, the next generation server operating system, on Nov. 15 at its Network Computing 04Q4 event in San Jose, the products will actually take a bit longer.

According this article Solaris 10 beta7 aka. build 69 available for download from Sun Microsystems.

Solaris 10, Beta7 is expected to be released tomorrow; you can get it here. This 'blog posting covers the changes since Beta6. A lot has changed: The Service Management Facility, the Java Desktop System, and a new X.org-based X server on x86 have all been added.