is a computer Operating System developed by Sun Microsystems . It is certified against the Single Unix Specification as a version of Unix , and although historically a Closed-source product, a majority of the codebase has been Open-sourced by Sun Microsystems.
Solaris is considered to be the SunOS operating system plus a Graphical User Environment , ONC+ , and other components. The SunOS minor version is included in the Solaris release name; for example, incorporated SunOS 5.4. After Solaris 2.6, Sun dropped the "2." from the name, so Solaris 7 incorporates SunOS 5.7, and the latest release SunOS 5.10 forms the core of '''Solaris 10'''.
Solaris uses a common and X86 (including X86-64 ). It was also ported to the PowerPC architecture ( PowerPC Reference Platform ) for version 2.5.1, but the port was cancelled almost as soon as it was released. Support for Itanium was at one time planned but never brought to market. Sun also implemented support for the ABI of the Linux platform in Solaris 10 8/07, allowing Solaris to run native Linux Binaries on x86 systems. This feature is called "Solaris Containers for Linux Applications" or SCLA.
Early releases of Solaris used OpenWindows as their Desktop Environment . In Solaris 2.0 to 2.2, OpenWindows supported both NeWS (based on highly enhanced PostScript interpreters) and the X Window System , and provided some Backward Compatibility for SunView , Sun's older desktop environment. Sun later dropped support for NeWS and SunView applications: OpenWindows 3.3 (which shipped with Solaris 2.3), was a port of X11 release 5.
As a member of did the Window Manager , IBM did the File Manager , and Sun did the E-mail and calendar facilities, and the drag-and-drop support (tooltalk). Solaris 2.5 onwards supported CDE, and OpenWindows was dropped from Solaris 9. Solaris 9 8/03 also introduced GNOME 2.0 as an alternative to CDE.
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http://wwwocfberkeleyedu/solaris/versions/solaris/27html
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Solaris 7
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OCF Solaris History
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http://wwwocfberkeleyedu/solaris/versions/solaris/26html
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Solaris 26
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OCF Solaris History
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http://wwwocfberkeleyedu/solaris/versions/solaris/251html
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Solaris 251
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OCF Solaris History
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http://developerssuncom/solaris/articles/solaris_processorhtml
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Solaris Processor Sets Made Easy
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Matthias Laux
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Sun Microsystems Inc
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June 2001
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2007-03-10
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http://wwwocfberkeleyedu/solaris/versions/solaris/25html
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Solaris 25
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OCF Solaris History
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http://wwwsuncom/software/whitepapers/solaris9/multithreadpdf
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Multithreading in the Solaris Operating Environment
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2006-11-02
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2002
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Sun Microsystems
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http://wwwsunmanagersorg/archives/1992/1133html
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SUMMARY: Solaris 20 vs 21
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2006-09-10
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Demetrios Stellas
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Thu Sep 03 1992
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Sun Managers mailing list
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