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What's Coming in Solaris 10

Posted by michael on from the lunch-getting-eaten-by-linux dept.

raptor21 writes "Ace's hardware has an article with feature list of technologies in Solaris 10 or whatever it is called today. Interesting stuff like DTrace, FireEngine, military grade security and a new filesystem called ZFS, Zetabyte File System."

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  1. Re:Athlon 64 will breathe new life into Solaris by mihalis · · Score: 0, Troll

    The only question in my mind is: Will you be able to run the IA-64 port of Solaris 10 on a home-built Athlon 64 box, or will it require Sun hardware to run?

    Oh, that's easy! IA-64 refers to the Itanium processor family, so the answer to your question is "No, in fact Solaris 10 will not run on any IA-64 box, no matter who makes it".

    Now, if you mean AMD x86-64 - the AMD specified 64-bit superset of IA-32, then that is an interesting question. I bet it will be at least as possible as sunning Solaris x86 on a random home-brew PC - either easy in some cases, or completely impossible in others depending on the driver situation. I can't see them putting 'slugs' into the O/S to prevent it working on non-Sun-assembled boxes, that's more of an IBM style trick

  2. Re:Price? by WatertonMan · · Score: 0, Troll
    Look. I just got a Sun Blade 150. I guarantee Gnome is not in there nor is there an option to use it. I searched the help files and there is nothing about Gnome. This is a brand new system.

    I brought up the issue of price because when I went to Sun's website it said it was free only for home users or developers otherwise I had to pay. But I said it was free in my note. I hope Solaris 10 is free. The last time I bought a Sun it wasn't free.

  3. Maybe... just maybe... by Mondain98 · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...this may be the release that adds speed.

  4. Re:ok see... by sharkey · · Score: 0, Troll
    At least the software would be a bit more stable.

    Stable, as in "where the horses shit"?

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  5. Re:Security? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Thanks, you added so much value with that comment. Please comment more often.