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DistroWatch.com: Oracle Solaris
Oracle Solaris

Oracle Solaris

Last Update: Wednesday 23 November 2011 04:09 GMT


Oracle Solaris

Solaris is a computer operating system, the proprietary Unix variant developed by Sun Microsystems. Early versions, based on BSD UNIX, were called SunOS. The shift to a System V code base in SunOS 5 was marked by changing the name to Solaris 2. Earlier versions were retroactively named Solaris 1.x. After version 2.6, Sun dropped the "2." from the name. Solaris consists of the SunOS UNIX base operating system plus a graphical user environment. Solaris is written in a platform-independent manner and is available for SPARC and x86 processors (including x86_64). Starting from version 10, the Solaris licence changed and the product was distributed free of charge for any system or purpose, but after the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle in 2009, the product is once again proprietary with a restrictive licence.


Solaris Summary
Distribution Solaris Operating System
Home Page http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/overview/index.html
Mailing Lists --
User Forums https://forums.oracle.com/forums/category.jspa?categoryID=303
Documentation http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/documentation/index.html
Screenshots  
Download Mirrors http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/downloads/index.html
Bug Tracker --
Related Web Sites SunHELPFreeware for SolarisBlastwaveSolaris x86
Reviews 11: Phoronix
10: BlogspotLinuxPlanetThe RegisterOSNewsInfoWorldOSNewsZDNetPC MagazineeWEEKOSNewsNetworkWorld
9: PC Magazine
Where To Buy LinuxCD.orgOSDisc.com (sponsored links)

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  • Notes: In case where multiple versions of a package are shipped with a distribution, only the default version appears in the table. For indication about the GNOME version, please check the 'nautilus' and 'gnome-shell' packages. As per the Apache project's recommendations, apache 1.3.x is referred to as 'apache', while apache 2.x is referred to as 'httpd'.
  • Colour scheme: green text = latest stable version, red text = development or beta version. The function determining beta versions is not 100% reliable due to a wide variety of versioning schemes.

Feature 11 10
Release Date 2011/11/09 2005/01/31
Price (US$)    
CDs 1 1
Free Download ISO, registration required ISO, registration required
Installation Graphical Graphical
Default Desktop GNOME CDE/GNOME
Package Management IPS, pkgadm pkgadm
Office Suite -- StarOffice
Processor Architecture sparc, x86_64 i386, sparc, x86_64
Journaled File Systems ZFS, UFS UFS
Multilingual de, en, es, fr, it, pt de, en, es, fr, it, se
Asian Language Support ja, kr, zh_CN, zh_TW ja, kr, zh_CN, zh_TW
Package 11 10
abiword (2.8.6)   --
alsa-lib (1.0.25)   --
ati-driver (8.930) 6.14.1 --
banshee (2.2.1)   --
bash (4.2) 4.1 3.0
bind (9.8.1-P1) 9.6.3 9.2.4
chromium (r120773)   --
cups (1.5.2) 1.4.5 1.1.21
dhcp (4.2.3-P2)   --
firefox (10.0) 6.0.2 --
freetype (2.4.8) 2.4.6 2.0.4
gcc (4.6.2) 4.5.2 3.4.2
gimp (2.6.12)   1.2.1
glibc (2.14.1)   --
gnome-shell (3.2.2.1)   --
gnucash (2.4.9)   --
gnumeric (1.10.17)   --
grub (1.99) 0.97 --
gtk+ (3.2.3) 2.20.1 2.4.0
httpd (2.2.22) 2.2.20 2.0.52
inkscape (0.48.2)   --
jre (7u2) 1.7.0  
k3b (2.0.2)   --
kdelibs (4.8.0)   3.1.1
libgnome (2.32.1) 2.30.0 2.6.0
libreoffice (3.4.5)   --
Package 11 10
linux (3.2.5)   --
lxde-common (0.5.5)   --
MesaLib (7.11.2)   --
module-init-tools (3.16)   --
mysql (5.5.20) 5.1.37 4.0.15
nautilus (3.2.1) 2.30.1 2.6.1
NVIDIA (290.10) 280.13 --
openbox (3.5.0)   --
openssh (5.9p1)   --
openssl (1.0.0g) 1.0.0e 0.9.7
perl (5.14.2) 5.12.3 5.8.4
php (5.3.10) 5.2.17 4.3.2
pidgin (2.10.1) 2.10.0 0.82.1
postfix (2.9.0)   --
postgresql (9.1.2)   --
Python (3.2.2) 2.6.4 2.2.3
qt (4.8.0)   3.1.1
samba (3.6.3) 3.5.10 3.0.4
thunderbird (10.0) 6.0.2 --
udev (181)   --
vim (7.3) 7.3 6.3
vlc (1.1.13)   --
xfdesktop (4.8.3)   3.8.16
xine-lib (1.2.1)   --
xorg-server (1.11.4) 1.10.3 (6.8.0)
xz (5.0.3)   --


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