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Find Out Some Information On Solaris
By DavePF | November 5, 2008
Back in 1987, AT&T and Sun said that the two companies were planning to create a new version of UNIX, merging the two most popular variants at the time - BSD and System V. This new UNIX version would be called UNIX System V Release 4 - SVR4.
In 1991, Sun announced that they were replacing their existing UNIX OS, SunOS, with a new version based on SVR4. SunOS was based on BSD and Sun were beginning to encounter problems with that release, and so with an eye to the future Sun announced Solaris 2.
SunOS was then renamed Solaris 1, and each Solaris version was composed of the operating environment (Solaris 2.6, Solaris 7, Solaris 10) and it’s related kernel (SunOS 5.6, SunOS 5.7, SunOS 10). The reason for this strange branding was that Solaris would mean the entire operating environment, which included the window manager and other applications.
Solaris now uses a shared codebase for both SPARC and x86 releases. Previous releases had officially been ported by Sun to the PowerPC and Itanium platforms. Solaris is now one of the most popular UNIX variants, thanks to it’s power, scalability, and many new technologies Sun include with each release.
With the release of OpenSolaris, Sun have finalised the process of open sourcing a powerful high end UNIX, allowing even the smallest UNIX consultancy to design a powerful UNIX infrastructure.
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