An x86 version of Solaris 2. It included the Wabi emulator to support Windows applications. On September 2, , Simon Phipps, a former Sun Microsystems employee not hired by Oracle in the acquisition, reported on Twitter that Oracle had laid off the Solaris core development staff, which many interpreted as sign that Oracle no longer intended to support future development of the platform.
Solaris uses a common code base for the platforms it supports: SPARC and i86pc which includes both x86 and x Solaris has a reputation for being well-suited to symmetric multiprocessing, supporting a large number of CPUs.
This has led to more reliable systems, but at a cost premium compared to commodity PC hardware. However, it has supported x86 systems since Solaris 2. As of , the following vendors support Solaris for their x86 server systems:.
Solaris 2. A port of Solaris to the Intel Itanium architecture was announced in but never brought to market. Solaris also supports the Linux platform application binary interface ABI , allowing Solaris to run native Linux binaries on x86 systems. Installation of Solaris is not necessary for an individual to use the system.
Early releases of Solaris used OpenWindows as the standard desktop environment. In Solaris 2. NeWS allowed applications to be built in an object-oriented way using PostScript, a common printing language released in The X Window System originated from MIT's Project Athena in and allowed for the display of an application to be disconnected from the machine where the application was running, separated by a network connection.
Sun's original bundled SunView application suite was ported to X. OpenWindows 3. Sun and other Unix vendors created an industry alliance to standardize Unix desktops. This was an initiative to create a standard Unix desktop environment. Each vendor contributed different components: Hewlett-Packard contributed the window manager, IBM provided the file manager, and Sun provided the e-mail and calendar facilities as well as drag-and-drop support ToolTalk.
CDE unified Unix desktops across multiple open system vendors. CDE was available as an unbundled add-on for Solaris 2. Sun describes JDS as a 'major component' of Solaris The open source desktop environments KDE and Xfce, along with numerous other window managers, also compile and run on recent versions of Solaris.
Sun was investing in a new desktop environment called Project Looking Glass since The project has been inactive since late For versions up to Solaris 9 , Solaris was licensed under a license that permitted a customer to buy licenses in bulk, and install the software on any machine up to a maximum number.
The key license grant was:. In addition, the license provided a 'License to Develop' granting rights to create derivative works, restricted copying to only a single archival copy, disclaimer of warranties, and the like.
The license varied only little through This code was based on the work being done for the post-Solaris 10 release code-named 'Nevada'; eventually released as Oracle Solaris As the project progressed, it grew to encompass most of the necessary code to compile an entire release, with a few exceptions. When Sun was acquired by Oracle in , the OpenSolaris project was discontinued after the board became unhappy with Oracle's stance on the project.
After that trial period had expired the user would then have to purchase a support contract from Oracle to continue using the operating system. Administrator Emeritus. Join Date: Jun Join Date: Jul PLease let me know it is very important for me ,since i want to install sun and do some handson on it and not want to spoil my live server.
Hi Ronsy Regard Andres. Thanks andres , i will first download and install the oS on VMware. Join Date: Dec You might also use VirtualBox, which supports Solaris both as host and guest. Please provide me with an example. With best regards, SS 1 Reply. Red Hat. How to make boot. Hello Everyone, Can anyone let me know how to make minimal boot. I have a dvd image with me but i want to make just a minimal boot media.
Somehow it is not shipped with dvd iso. I know we can download boot. How to modify an iso image file. Hi, I'm trying to create a customized debian installer on a USB key.
I found a tutorial on how to create the usb key. After the USB key is prepared, all you have to do is to copy the iso file to the stick. So what I need to do now is to be able to modify the content of the iso file before Thnx in advance Go for Oracle Solaris Once click any of the above options, a page will open, where you have to accept terms and conditions to download it.
Plus to download the site will ask you to login with Oracle account if you have then used that otherwise create one. It is free of cost. As you type it, the VirtualBox automatically set the rest of the options. However, as we are installing the latest version of Solaris i. Click on the Next button. Finally, Click on the OK button.
As we said at the beginning of the article that the operating the system is available in both ISO and VM image format, well above we have shown how to use its ISO image and here we are going to use the VM template. Well, if you just want to use this OS only on Virtualization environment then VM templates are recommended. We have also used it to show this article. All the settings for the Virtual Machine have already been done by the Oracle for us.
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