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-Solaris is an "industrial-strength" version of [UNIX] made by SunMicrosystems
, who also make hardware. Sun are losing
the low-end to much cheaper linux-on-[
x86] boxes
.
+Solaris is an "industrial-strength" version of [UNIX] made by Sun Microsystems
, who also make hardware. It's available for both
Sun SPARC processors and
the x86 architecture
.
-The operating system used to be known as
[SunOS], but "recent" (in Solaris time anyway) versions have been known as Solaris
and had their version number bumped up. I think
the difference is that Solaris is supposedly
the whole operating environment.
-
-So,
Solaris 2.8 is also known as
SunOS 5.8,
and maybe
just called "
Solaris 8". Similarly Solaris 2.9 is
(or contains)
SunOS 5.9
+The core
operating system is called
[SunOS], and the addition of network services like NIS and [NFS] and
the X Window system makes up
Solaris which is numbered
2.x following [
SunOS]
5.x up until 2.6. After that Sun dropped the "2." to lessen the confusion
and just called it
Solaris 7
(based on
SunOS 5.7). From Solaris 8 it started to contain more and more open source software to make it easier on the sysadmin. Solaris
9 comes with OpenSSH, bash, Apache, Sendmail, BIND, gzip, zip, logrotate and most other stuff we used to add.
Linux has copied many of the features of the Solaris kernel and user-space, such as the style of dynamic linking (eg dlopen(3), ld.so, the LD_PRELOAD environment variable), [NFS] and [RPC].
See the RosettaStone
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Part of CategoryOperatingSystem
