Solaris é um sistema baseado noUNIX feito pela Sun Computers que corre em máquinas Sun SPARC and Intel Pentium..
“SunOS (1.x - 4.x) is Sun’s original, BSD-based Unix. Solaris 2.x is Sun’s newer, System V Release 4-based Unix. Which means it has STREAMS networking, System V interprocess communication, and so on, as well as some SunOS compatibility libraries so it can still run SunOS software. Solaris 1.x — this is the part where it gets confusing — is the same as SunOS 4.x.” —Chris Hanson
“Sun OS is basically all the “real unix” stuff. Solaris is a bundling of Sun-OS with all the “window dressing” (pun intended) like CDE (Common Desktop Environment) a.k.a. the GUI, and other OS “accessories” like a Web browser, etc.” —Greg T. Loose
Tipo de SO: proprietary System V Release 4-based UNIX
“SunOS is part of Solaris. Current versions of SunOS were originally based on the AT&T SVR4.0 flavor of Unix. Since then it has diverged. SunOS is compliant with the Open Group’s Unix 98 specifications (http://www.UNIX-systems.org/).” —Greg Onufer
Versão corrente: 7
Sun SPARC, Intel Pentium, Intel 486DX
Número máximo de processadores: 64
“SunOS 4 supports 1 processor per system except in some very old configurations (4/6xx series machines with slow processors). SunOS 5 supports up to 64 processors in a single box (the E10000, for example).” —Greg Onufer
“Digital UNIX continues to dominate the 64-bit arena, leaving HP-UX and IRIX to contest the second position, followed closely by AIX. Solaris and NT trail significantly behind. Solaris does not yet provide support for 64-bit processes, so it falls somewhat further behind and potential compatibility issues remain largely unknown. Still, Sun has migrated over half its product line to 64-bit hardware, and provides support for large amounts of physical memory, both of which are still missing from NT.” —D.H. Brown Associates
Kernel: proprietary
POSIX: compatible
Periféricos: “all current Sparc peripherals” —Kristian Elof Sørensen
Ficheiros de sistema suportáveis:
- preferred file system: UFS (NRWF)
- file systems can read/write: FAT (RW)
Motor de gráficos:
Operador de interface(texto): UNIX shells
Operador de interface(gráfico): Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
“Solaris 2.6 scores moderately well in system management and PC interoperability, but falls short in remaining areas. The operating system is unable to match many useful line-item features found in other systems that have benefited from a massive investment.” —D.H. Brown Associates
(Frequently Asked Questions)
http://www.stokely.com/unix.sysadm.resources/faqs.sun.html
