Solaris

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Solaris

An Unix-based operating system developed by Sun Sun Microsystems, Solaris was originally developed to run on Sun's SPARC workstations, Solaris also runs on i386workstations from other vendors.

Solaris previously known as SunOS includes XWindows that uses OpenWindows, CDE or Gnome. Solaris currently supports multithreading, SMP symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), with (of course) TCPIP TCP/IP networking, and a centralized NIS network administration package. A WABI emulator, as well as PC Emulator boards are available to run Microsoft Windows applications.

Links:

• Sun Microsystems own website can be found at http://www.sun.com/
• Suns Solaris page can be found here http://www.sun.com/solaris/
• You can get GNU packages (and other goodies) from http://www.sunfreeware.com/
• Googles Directory entry can be found [here]

Usenet:

• [news:comp.unix.solaris] ([via Google Groups])
• [news:alt.solaris.x86] ([via Google Groups])
• [news:comp.sys.sun.admin] ([via Google Groups])