Discover Some Information On Sun Solaris
Back in 1987, AT&T and Sun said that the two companies were planning to develop a new version of UNIX, combining the two most popular variants at the time - BSD and System V. This new UNIX version would be named UNIX System V Release 4 - SVR4.
In 1991, Sun said 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 run into problems with that variant, and so with an eye to the future Sun unveiled Solaris 2.
SunOS was then renamed Solaris 1, and each Solaris variant was made up 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 odd marketing was that Solaris would refer to the complete operating environment, which included the window manager and other code.
Solaris now uses a common codebase for both SPARC and x86 versions. Previous versions had officially been ported by Sun to the PowerPC and Itanium platforms. Solaris is now one of the most common UNIX variants, thanks to it’s power, scalability, and many new technologies Sun include with each release.
With the release of OpenSolaris, Sun have completed the process of open sourcing a powerful high end UNIX, allowing even the smallest UNIX consultancy to plan a scaleable UNIX infrastructure.