17 Facts About Oracle Solaris

Oracle Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

Oracle Solaris superseded the company's earlier SunOS in 1993, and became known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as DTrace, ZFS and Time Slider.

Oracle Solaris was registered as compliant with the Single UNIX Specification until 29 April 2019.

Oracle Solaris has a reputation for being well-suited to symmetric multiprocessing, supporting a large number of CPUs.

Oracle Solaris can be installed from various pre-packaged software groups, ranging from a minimalistic Reduced Network Support to a complete Entire Plus OEM.

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Installation of Oracle Solaris is not necessary for an individual to use the system.

Oracle Solaris can be installed from physical media or a network for use on a desktop or server, or be used without installing on a desktop or server.

Early releases of Oracle Solaris used OpenWindows as the standard desktop environment.

Oracle Solaris 10 includes Sun's Java Desktop System, which is based on GNOME and comes with a large set of applications, including StarOffice, Sun's office suite.

Versions up to 2005, Oracle Solaris was licensed under a license that permitted a customer to buy licenses in bulk, and install the software on any machine up to a maximum number.

In March 2010, the previously freely available Oracle Solaris 10 was placed under a restrictive license that limited the use, modification and redistribution of the operating system.

When Oracle Solaris is used without a support contract it can be upgraded to each new "point release"; however, a support contract is required for access to patches and updates that are released monthly.

Each version such as Oracle Solaris 10 is based on a snapshot of this development codebase, taken near the time of its release, which is then maintained as a derived project.

SXCE releases terminated with build 130 and OpenOracle Solaris releases terminated with build 134 a few weeks later.

The next release of OpenOracle Solaris based on build 134 was due in March 2010, but it was never fully released, though the packages were made available on the package repository.

Instead, Oracle renamed the binary distribution Solaris 11 Express, changed the license terms and released build 151a as 2010.

Oracle Solaris 10 provides a flexible background for securely dividing system resources, providing performance guarantees and tracking usage for these containers.