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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
.
+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
.
-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
+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]
.
-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).
+See
the RosettaStone
+
+
----
+Part
of CategoryOperatingSystem
