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ryuzaki0
on from the sunshine-lollipops-and-rainbows dept.
ptolemu writes "The Register has the scoop on Sun's latest iteration of Solaris. The article includes some details of the new and improved features that will be included in the OS. The OS is scheduled to be released in the second half of 2004."
Sun has also added a new security tool with Solaris Privileges. This lets the root user create sub roots that can have permission, for example, to patch applications but not to touch hardware components.
How can an OS have control over a real, or non-virtual, object?
-- If I point out that you are incorrect, making me a foe does not make you any more correct.
Just when I finally decided to get certified in 9.....at least the upgrades aren't as prolific as with MS!
Re:so what's better, bsd, linux or solaris?
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PacoTaco
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Uses funny everything.
Re:"Solyaris" by Tartovsky
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jay-be-em
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"Solaris is so far off the radarscope of present computing these days"
You obviously have nothing to do with present computing these days. At least outside of your basement. Oh, by the way, mom called, dinner is ready.
-- "Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness." --Eric Blair
Re:You're late to this scene
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Bastian
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Solaris came out in 1972. There's been plenty of time for 9 sequels in 30-odd years. Actually, the crappy Solaris that just made the theatres in the USA is Solaris 9, but was released in the USA as Solaris 1. (It's kind of a Final Fantasy 3/6 thing) Solaris 11 is already in the process of being shot, just like Darl.
"It means rock-solid 64-bit UNIX on commodity x86 hardware. Very cool..."
Not really. It means a rock-solid 64-bit unix that you should be running on SPARC. And by the way, it's gonna be discontinued next month. Or wait... no, we're gonna support it. Maybe. Or maybe not. You should be running Solaris on SPARC. But wait, you can run it on x86-64. Or SPARC. But we're going to discontinue Solaris on anything but SPARC next month. Or not. Well, hey, run x86 Solaris! No, it's not supported. Yes it is. Etc. Etc. Etc.
The fact is, until Sun can get their story straight for 6 consecutive months I wont ever consider running Solaris on anything but SPARC. As long as they cant commit for more than the attention span of a stoned gnat with split personality syndrome I have serious doubts about both the stability and the level of support one will recieve for non-SPARC platforms.
Re:so what's better, bsd, linux or solaris?
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Gilesx
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> I could go on, but you should get the point by now.
That you're a Solaris fan-boy?
-- Sunday you're Thinking Different, Monday you're a huge tool, paying too much and waiting to think like everyone else.
Solaris 10
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Anonymous Coward
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Time to dust off the old Johnny Mathis albums and try to locate the song "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late".
also, with as much as the company probably paid for the sparc machines and solaris and support, you could have had a couple of backups or redundancy with the linux machines:)
Re:Is Unix Unix?
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whereiswaldo
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How you do anything is how you do everything
Do you wipe your ass as fervently as you make love to your wife?
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Will it be called SunOS 2.10 or SunOS 3.0?
Sun has also added a new security tool with Solaris Privileges. This lets the root user create sub roots that can have permission, for example, to patch applications but not to touch hardware components.
How can an OS have control over a real, or non-virtual, object?
If I point out that you are incorrect, making me a foe does not make you any more correct.
7. Uses that funny keyboard.
Life in Orange County
Considering Debian stable, last I checked, still has the 2.2 kernel as default, I'd say you have at least a ten year wait.
When I am king, you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
I loved the first movie, I hope they recast George Cloony, but I didn't like the other 8 ....
Uh wait this isn't about the movie Solaris is it?
I just recently saw Solaris. Not even a sequel out yet... how could they be coming out with a 10th version?
It was good I guess, but good enough for 9 sequels in 3 years??
Just when I finally decided to get certified in 9.....at least the upgrades aren't as prolific as with MS!
Uses funny everything.
"Solaris is so far off the radarscope of present computing these days"
You obviously have nothing to do with present computing these days. At least outside of your basement. Oh, by the way, mom called, dinner is ready.
"Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness." --Eric Blair
Solaris came out in 1972. There's been plenty of time for 9 sequels in 30-odd years. Actually, the crappy Solaris that just made the theatres in the USA is Solaris 9, but was released in the USA as Solaris 1. (It's kind of a Final Fantasy 3/6 thing) Solaris 11 is already in the process of being shot, just like Darl.
with this release will i be able to change the timezone without requiring a reboot?
What's so scary about 102MB? That's like 3 Windows updates, or half a Debian update.
Not that this wasn't entirely predictable.
Oh my, what /. is turning into.
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Making fun of Windows and Debian in the same post should be every man's goal.
Game... blouses.
UNIX is like sex, it's better when you don't have to fake it.
"It means rock-solid 64-bit UNIX on commodity x86 hardware. Very cool..."
Not really. It means a rock-solid 64-bit unix that you should be running on SPARC. And by the way, it's gonna be discontinued next month. Or wait... no, we're gonna support it. Maybe. Or maybe not. You should be running Solaris on SPARC. But wait, you can run it on x86-64. Or SPARC. But we're going to discontinue Solaris on anything but SPARC next month. Or not. Well, hey, run x86 Solaris! No, it's not supported. Yes it is. Etc. Etc. Etc.
The fact is, until Sun can get their story straight for 6 consecutive months I wont ever consider running Solaris on anything but SPARC. As long as they cant commit for more than the attention span of a stoned gnat with split personality syndrome I have serious doubts about both the stability and the level of support one will recieve for non-SPARC platforms.
> I could go on, but you should get the point by now.
That you're a Solaris fan-boy?
Sunday you're Thinking Different, Monday you're a huge tool, paying too much and waiting to think like everyone else.
Time to dust off the old Johnny Mathis albums and try to locate the song "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late".
also, with as much as the company probably paid for the sparc machines and solaris and support, you could have had a couple of backups or redundancy with the linux machines :)
How you do anything is how you do everything
Do you wipe your ass as fervently as you make love to your wife?