Solaris

Solaris 10 using Java Desktop System
Website:	http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/
Company/ developer:	Sun Microsystems
OS family:	Unix
Source model:	mixed open source / closed source
Latest stable release:	10 11/06 / 11 December 2006
Latest testing release:	{{{latest_test_version}}} / {{{latest_test_date}}}
Supported platforms:	SPARC, x86 (including x86-64)[1]
Kernel type:	Monolithic kernel
Default user interface:	Java Desktop System
License:	Proprietary software
Working state:	Current

Solaris is a computer operating system developed by Sun Microsystems. It is certified against the Single Unix Specification as a version of Unix. Although Solaris is still proprietary software, the core OS has been made into an open source project, OpenSolaris. Solaris 10 with the new Java Desktop System (JDS). ... JDS screenshot. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... The term software company could be applied to; a) a company that produces software or b) a company that distributes software from a third party or c) a company that provides services for software. ... A software developer is a programmer who is concerned with one or more facets of the software development process, a somewhat broader scope of computer programming. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... The text below is generated by a template, which has been proposed for deletion. ... December 11 is the 345th day (346th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Sun UltraSPARC II Microprocessor Sun UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara 8 Core) SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) is a pure big-endian RISC microprocessor instruction set architecture originally designed in 1985 by Sun Microsystems. ... x86 or 80x86 is the generic name of a microprocessor architecture first developed and manufactured by Intel. ... The AMD64 or x86-64 is a 64-bit processor architecture invented by AMD. It is a superset of the x86 architecture, which it natively supports. ... A kernel connects the application software to the hardware of a computer. ... Graphical overview of a monolithic kernel A monolithic kernel defines a high-level virtual interface over the hardware, with a set of primitives or system calls to implement operating system services such as process management, concurrency, and memory management in several modules that run in supervisor mode. ... The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ... JDS screenshot. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Proprietary software is software that has restrictions on using and copying it, usually enforced by a proprietor. ... An operating system (OS) is a computer program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... The Single UNIX Specification (SUS) is the collective name of a family of standards for computer operating systems to qualify for the name Unix. The SUS is developed and maintained by the Austin Group, based on earlier work by the IEEE and The Open Group. ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... Proprietary software is software that has restrictions on using and copying it, usually enforced by a proprietor. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... OpenSolaris is an open source project created by Sun Microsystems to build a developer community around the Solaris Operating System technology. ...

History

In the early 1990s Sun replaced the BSD-derived SunOS 4 with a version of UNIX System V Release 4 (SVR4), jointly developed with AT&T. The underlying release name was SunOS 5.0, but a new marketing name was introduced at the same time: Solaris 2. While SunOS 4.1.x micro releases were retroactively named Solaris 1 by Sun, the name Solaris is almost exclusively used to refer to SVR4-derived SunOS 5.0 and later.^[2] Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD, sometimes called Berkeley Unix) is the Unix derivative distributed by the University of California, Berkeley, starting in the 1970s. ... SunOS was the version of the UNIX operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for their workstations and server systems until the early 1990s. ... It has been suggested that Traditional Unix be merged into this article or section. ... AT&T (NYSE: T) is the largest provider of both local and long distance telephone services, wireless service (formerly known as Cingular Wireless), and DSL internet access in the United States. ... A retronym is a type of neologism coined for an old object or concept whose original name has come to be used for something else or is no longer unique. ...

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, Solaris 2.4 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. aji abrahamBold textI am a student Headline text at Farmingdale. ...

Supported architectures

Solaris uses a common code base for the architectures it supports: SPARC 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.^[3] Sun also plan to implement support for the ABI of the Linux platform in a future update to Solaris 10, allowing Solaris to run native Linux binaries on x86 systems. This feature is called "Solaris Containers for Linux Applications" or SCLA.^[4] Sun UltraSPARC II Microprocessor Sun UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara 8 Core) SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) is a pure big-endian RISC microprocessor instruction set architecture originally designed in 1985 by Sun Microsystems. ... x86 or 80x86 is the generic name of a microprocessor architecture first developed and manufactured by Intel. ... The AMD64 or x86-64 is a 64-bit processor architecture invented by AMD. It is a superset of the x86 architecture, which it natively supports. ... IBM PowerPC 601 Microprocessor PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high-performance processors as well. ... PowerPC Reference Platform (PReP) was a PowerPC hardware reference design. ... Itanium 2 logo Old Itanium logo The Itanium is an IA-64 microprocessor developed jointly by Hewlett-Packard and Intel. ... In computer software, an application binary interface (ABI) describes the low-level interface between an application program and the operating system, between an application and its libraries, or between component parts of the application. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Linux distributions. ... In computer science, object file or object code is an intermediate representation of code generated by a compiler after it processes a source code file. ...

Solaris has a reputation for being well-suited to SMP, supporting a large number of CPUs.^[5] It has historically been tightly integrated with Sun's SPARC hardware, with which it is designed and marketed as a combined package, and has included support for 64-bit SPARC applications since Solaris 7. This has often led to more reliable systems, but at a cost premium over commodity PC hardware. However, it has also supported x86 systems since Solaris 2.1 and the latest version of Solaris, Solaris 10, has been designed with AMD64 in mind, allowing Sun to capitalize on the availability of commodity 64-bit CPUs based on the AMD64 architecture. Sun has heavily marketed Solaris with its AMD64-based workstations and servers, which range from dual-core to 16-core models as of December 2006. Symmetric Multiprocessing, or SMP, is a multiprocessor computer architecture where two or more identical processors are connected to a single shared main memory. ... CPU redirects here. ... In computing, a 64-bit component is one in which data are processed or stored in 64-bit units (words). ... Sun UltraSPARC II Microprocessor Sun UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara 8 Core) SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) is a pure big-endian RISC microprocessor instruction set architecture originally designed in 1985 by Sun Microsystems. ... Commodity is a term with distinct meanings in both business and in Marxian political economy. ... Sun SPARCstation 1+, 25mhz RISC processor from early 1990s A workstation, such as a Unix workstation, RISC workstation or engineering workstation, is a high-end technical computing desktop microcomputer designed primarily to be used by one person at a time, but can also be accessed remotely by other users when... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Desktop environments

The first Solaris desktop environment was OpenWindows, previously bundled with SunOS 4.1.x releases. It was superseded by CDE in Solaris 2.5 onwards. Sun's Java Desktop System, which is based on GNOME, is included with Solaris 10. It has been suggested that Desktop metaphor,Paper paradigm be merged into this article or section. ... OpenWindows file manager OpenWindows was a graphical user interface server for Sun Microsystems workstations which handled SunView, NeWS, and X Window System protocols. ... CDE on Unix (Solaris 8) DECwindows CDE on OpenVMS 7. ... JDS screenshot. ... A gnome (or Nisse) hiding behind a toadstool. ...

License

Solaris's source code (with a few exceptions) has been released under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) via the OpenSolaris project.^[6] The CDDL is an OSI-approved license.^[7] It is considered by the Free Software Foundation to be free but incompatible with the GPL.^[8] Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) is an open source and Free software license, produced by Sun Microsystems, based on the Mozilla Public License (MPL), version 1. ... OpenSolaris is an open source project created by Sun Microsystems to build a developer community around the Solaris Operating System technology. ... The Open Source Initiative is an organization dedicated to promoting open source software. ... The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit corporation founded in October 1985 by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement (free as in freedom), and in particular the GNU project. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ...

OpenSolaris was seeded on June 14, 2005 from the then-current Solaris development code base; both binary and source versions are currently downloadable and licensed without cost. Source for upcoming features such as Xen support is now added to the OpenSolaris project as a matter of course, and Sun has said that future releases of Solaris proper will henceforth be derived from OpenSolaris. June 14 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (166th in leap years), with 200 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Xen (disambiguation). ...

Versions

Notable features of Solaris currently include DTrace, Doors, Service Management Facility, Solaris Containers, Solaris Multiplexed I/O, Solaris Volume Manager, ZFS, and Solaris Trusted Extensions. DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework created by Sun Microsystems. ... Doors are an Inter-process communication facility for Unix computer systems. ... Service Management Facility (SMF) is a new feature of the Solaris Operating System 10 that creates a supported, unified model for services and service management on each Solaris system and replaces init. ... Solaris Containers (formerly known as Solaris Zones) is a virtualization feature first available with Solaris 10. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Solaris Volume Manager is a software the enables to create, modify and use RAID-0 (concatenation and stripe) volumes, RAID-1 (mirror) volumes, RAID-5 volumes, and soft partitions. ... ZFS, is a free, open-source file system produced by Sun Microsystems for its Solaris Operating System. ... Trusted Solaris is a security-evaluated operating system based on Solaris by Sun Microsystems, featuring a mandatory access control model. ...

In descending order, the following versions of Solaris have been released as of December 2006: 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Solaris 7 is no longer shipping but will be supported until August 2008; Solaris 8 will stop shipping in February 2007 but will be supported until April 2012.^[16] Earlier versions are unsupported. January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework created by Sun Microsystems. ... Solaris Containers (formerly known as Solaris Zones) is a virtualization feature first available with Solaris 10. ... Service Management Facility (SMF) is a new feature of the Solaris Operating System 10 that creates a supported, unified model for services and service management on each Solaris system and replaces init. ... Network File System (NFS), a protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984 and defined in RFCs 1094, 1813, and 3530 (obsoletes 3010) as a distributed file system, allows a user on a client computer to access files over a network as easily as if attached to its local disks. ... The concept of access or functionality within an Operating System with the miminmum possible priviledges to permit the action. ... JDS screenshot. ... A gnome (or Nisse) hiding behind a toadstool. ... GNU GRUB is multiboot boot loader software package from the GNU project. ... . The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions. ... ZFS, is a free, open-source file system produced by Sun Microsystems for its Solaris Operating System. ... Trusted Solaris is a security-evaluated operating system based on Solaris by Sun Microsystems, featuring a mandatory access control model. ... May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ... 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A more comprehensive summary of some Solaris versions is also available.^[17] Solaris releases are also described in the Solaris 2 FAQ.^[18]

Development release

The underlying Solaris codebase has been under continuous development since work began in the late 1980s on what was eventually released as Solaris 2.0. Each version such as Solaris 10 is based on a snapshot of this development "train", taken near the time of its release, which is then maintained as a derived project. Updates to that project are built and delivered several times a year until the next official release comes out.

The Solaris version currently under development by Sun is codenamed Nevada, and is derived from what is now the OpenSolaris codebase. 2007 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A code name or cryptonym is a word or name used clandestinely to refer to another name or word. ...

In 2003, an addition to the Solaris development process was initiated. Under the program name Solaris Express, a snapshot of the development train is now made available for download each month, allowing anyone to try out new features and test the quality and stability of the OS as it progresses to the release of the next official Solaris version.^[19]

Since Solaris Express predates the release of the Solaris codebase as an open source project, it began as a binary-only program, but there is now a version called the Solaris Express: Community Release intended specifically for OpenSolaris developers.^[20] It is updated weekly, and is for evaluation and personal purposes only.

References

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See also

• Trusted Solaris
• Comparison of operating systems

Trusted Solaris is a security-evaluated operating system based on Solaris by Sun Microsystems, featuring a mandatory access control model. ... The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of widely used and currently available operating systems. ...

External links

• Solaris Operating System Official home page
• Open Directory: Operating Systems: Unix: Solaris
• SunHELP - Solaris news, resources, and discussion
• Solaris Central - Solaris news and discussion
• BigAdmin - System administration portal
• Solaris Developer Portal - For application developers on Solaris
• Software
  • Blastwave.org - Solaris free software packages
  • Sunfreeware.com - Solaris freeware