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| Summary | Solaris is designed as a high reliability OS, intended for continuous 24/7 operation and currently focused at the needs of the web and server environments. It also supports multiple virtual processes, multiple processors and different CPU platforms. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| News | Jan-2010 Oracle acquires Sun Microsystems. 1-Feb-2005 Solaris 10 Available 2-Sep-2004 Solaris 10 in early testing, first release will support x86, Sparc and AMD64 platforms. Jan-2003 Solaris 9 for x86 available Includes Sun SunScreen Firewall, and IPlanet directory services. 5-Oct-2002 Sun announces Solaris 9 will be made available for the x86. It will no longer be free, but available for $99 in January 2003 (San Jose Mercury News 22-May-2002 Sun releases version 9, but no support for x86 processors. 8-Jan-2002 Sun to drop Intel Support in Solaris 9 (Infoworld) |
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| Product | Solaris 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Processor | Pentium
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| RAM | 256 MB (512 MB recommended) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Drive space | 2.5 GB (5 GB recommended) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Drives | Runs from hard disk | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Video | VGA or better | |||||||||||||||||||||
| File systems | UFS, NFS, HSFS, VxFS, QFS | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Compatibility | Solaris
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| Interface | GUI and Text based interfaces | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Installation | Solaris can be installed on any primary partition on any drive. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Variants | Workstation Solaris Express, Developer Edition Server |
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| Versions | v2.3 v2.4 v2.5 v2.6 v7.0 1998 v8.0 2000 v9.0 2002 (x86 version 2003) v10 3/05 Mar-2005 v10 1/06 Jan-2006 v10 6/06 Jun-2006 |
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| Downloads | Downloads | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Oracle Solaris Home Page OpenSolaris Home Hardware Compatibility Comparison with older versions Sun Press Releases |
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| Books | Unix Categories: All - Solaris
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| Publisher | Oracle Corporation 500 Oracle Parkway Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA Sun Microsystems, Inc. (now part of Oracle) 901 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA Phone: 1-650-506-7000 Web: www.oracle.com |
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| Support | Paid support available | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Alternatives | Windows 2003/2008, Linux | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Pricing | Free for download | |||||||||||||||||||||
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