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72-419: Logical Disk Manager enables disk volumes to be dynamic , in contrast to the standard basic volume format. Basic volumes and dynamic volumes differ in their ability to extend storage beyond one physical disk. Basic partitions are restricted to a fixed size on one physical disk. Dynamic volumes can be enlarged to include more free space - either from the same disk or another physical disk. (For more information on

144-401: A 1- MB alignment boundary, ignoring the previous conventions called "drive geometry" or "CHS" . In other words, Vista's Disk Management acts like it is using a non-standard CHS geometry of 2048 sectors per track / head and 1 track/head per cylinder (the sectors being of 512 bytes so that 2048 sectors is 1  MB ). Partition (computing) Disk partitioning or disk slicing is

216-475: A Linux operating system may recognize a number of different file systems ( ext4 , ext3 , ext2 , ReiserFS , etc.), they have all consistently used the same partition type code: 0x83 ( Linux native file system ). An HDD may contain only one extended partition, but that extended partition can be subdivided into multiple logical partitions. DOS/Windows systems may then assign a unique drive letter to each logical partition. GUID partition table (GPT) only has

288-465: A backup boot sector is available. HDDs can be compressed to create additional space. In DOS and early Microsoft Windows, programs such as Stacker (DR-DOS except 6.0), SuperStor (DR DOS 6.0), DoubleSpace (MS-DOS 6.0–6.2), or DriveSpace (MS-DOS 6.22, Windows 9x) were used. This compression was done by creating a very large file on the partition, then storing the disk's data in this file. At startup, device drivers opened this file and assigned it

360-445: A block storage device such as an HDD into physical segments. The term's usage is now ubiquitous. Other terms used include logical disk , minidisk , portions , pseudo-disk , section , slice and virtual drive . One of the earliest such segmentation of a disk drive was IBM's 1966 usage in its CP-67 operating system of minidisk as a separate segment of a hard disk drive. With DOS , Microsoft Windows , and OS/2 ,

432-546: A common practice is to use one primary partition for the active file system that will contain the operating system, the page/swap file, all utilities, applications, and user data. On most Windows consumer computers, the drive letter C: is routinely assigned to this primary partition. Other partitions may exist on the HDD that may or may not be visible as drives, such as recovery partitions or partitions with diagnostic tools or data. (Windows drive letters do not correspond to partitions in

504-594: A common printing language released in 1982. The X Window System originated from MIT 's Project Athena in 1984 and allowed for the display of an application to be disconnected from the machine where the application was running, separated by a network connection. Sun's original bundled SunView application suite was ported to X. Sun later dropped support for legacy SunView applications and NeWS with OpenWindows 3.3, which shipped with Solaris 2.3, and switched to X11R5 with Display Postscript support. The graphical look and feel remained based upon OPEN LOOK . OpenWindows 3.6.2

576-613: A disk partitioned with the MBR Partition Table scheme, the Logical Disk Manager metadata are not stored in a partition, but are stored in a 1  MB area at the end of the disk that is not assigned to any partition. The disc partitioning tools in Windows 2000 up to Windows 10 will not use that area for disk partitions, but the tools in other operating systems might. The aforementioned reservation of 1 MB would only occur on

648-468: A disk which is identified by Windows as a "Local Disk" as opposed to a "Removable Disk". Thus a CompactFlash (CF) card capable of true IDE mode connected to a PC running Windows through an IDE port or a USB to ATA bridge, a mobile HDD enclosure case for instance, would get this reservation in contrast to one being connected through a normal USB card reader or a passive 16-bit CF to PCMCIA adapter where it does not deserve this reservation. Dynamic disk

720-490: A large layoff of Solaris development engineering staff, development continued and Solaris 11.4 was released in 2018. Solaris uses a common code base for the platforms it supports: 64-bit SPARC and x86-64 . Solaris has a reputation for being well-suited to symmetric multiprocessing , supporting a large number of CPUs . It has historically been tightly integrated with Sun's SPARC hardware (including support for 64-bit SPARC applications since Solaris 7), with which it

792-606: A member of the Common Open Software Environment (COSE) initiative, Sun helped co-develop the Common Desktop Environment (CDE). This was an initiative to create a standard Unix desktop environment. Each vendor contributed different components: Hewlett-Packard contributed the window manager , IBM provided the file manager , and Sun provided the e-mail and calendar facilities as well as drag-and-drop support ( ToolTalk ). This new desktop environment

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864-633: A one-to-one fashion, so there may be more or fewer drive letters than partitions.) Microsoft Windows 2000 , XP , Vista , and Windows 7 include a ' Disk Management ' program which allows for the creation, deletion and resizing of FAT and NTFS partitions. The Windows Disk Manager in Windows Vista and Windows 7 utilizes a 1 MB partition alignment scheme which is fundamentally incompatible with Windows 2000, XP, OS/2, DOS as well as many other operating systems. On Unix -based and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux , macOS , BSD , and Solaris , it

936-420: A partition table which includes entries for these recovered file systems. Some disk utilities may overwrite a number of beginning sectors of a partition they delete. For example, if Windows Disk Management (Windows 2000/XP, etc.) is used to delete a partition, it will overwrite the first sector (relative sector 0) of the partition before removing it. It still may be possible to restore a FAT or NTFS partition if

1008-416: A primary partition can either correspond to a file system contained within (e.g., 0x07 means either an NTFS or an OS/2 HPFS file system) or indicate that the partition has a special use (e.g., code 0x82 usually indicates a Linux swap partition). The FAT16 and FAT32 file systems have made use of a number of partition type codes due to the limits of various DOS and Windows OS versions. Though

1080-426: A remaining 8 MB free space once Windows setup is used to create a partition. Coincidentally, Solaris 11 leaves exactly this amount of space at the beginning of a disk. Furthermore, this is not true since Windows Vista which always leaves 1 MB that is aligned to 2048 sector boundaries at the end of a local disk for the purpose of dynamic disk. Disk Management in Windows Vista creates partitions according to

1152-518: A separate letter. Frequently, to avoid confusion, the original partition and the compressed drive had their letters swapped, so that the compressed disk is C:, and the uncompressed area (often containing system files) is given a higher name. Versions of Windows using the NT kernel, including the most recent version, Windows 10 , contain intrinsic disk compression capability. The use of separate disk compression utilities has declined sharply. A partition table

1224-505: A ship of the First Fleet to Australia ). On October 17, 2008, a prototype release of Sirius was made available and on November 19 the same year, IBM authorized the use of Sirius on System z Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) processors. Solaris also supports the Linux platform application binary interface (ABI), allowing Solaris to run native Linux binaries on x86 systems. This feature

1296-419: A support credential, thus are not freely available to the public. Early releases of Solaris used OpenWindows as the standard desktop environment. In Solaris 2.0 to 2.2, OpenWindows supported both NeWS and X applications, and provided backward compatibility for SunView applications from Sun's older desktop environment. NeWS allowed applications to be built in an object-oriented way using PostScript ,

1368-466: A unified source code base. In 2011, the Solaris 11 kernel source code leaked . On September 2, 2017, Simon Phipps , a former Sun Microsystems employee not hired by Oracle in the acquisition, reported on Twitter that Oracle had laid off the Solaris core development staff, which many interpreted as sign that Oracle no longer intended to support future development of the platform. While Oracle did have

1440-458: A year until the next official release comes out. The Solaris version under development by Sun since the release of Solaris 10 in 2005, was codenamed Nevada , and is derived from what is now the OpenSolaris codebase. In 2003, an addition to the Solaris development process was initiated. Under the program name Software Express for Solaris (or just Solaris Express ), a binary release based on

1512-484: Is a proprietary Unix operating system offered by Oracle for SPARC and x86-64 based workstations and servers . Originally developed by Sun Microsystems as Solaris, it 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. After the Sun acquisition by Oracle in 2010, it

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1584-579: Is a part of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) standard for the layout of the partition table on a physical hard disk . Many operating systems now support this standard. However, Windows does not support this on BIOS based computers. When a partition is deleted, its entry is removed from a table and the data is no longer accessible. The data remains on the disk until it is overwritten. Specialized recovery utilities may be able to locate lost file systems and recreate

1656-424: Is a proprietary format of Microsoft developed together with Veritas. A basic volume is a volume stored on a basic disk, while a dynamic volume is a volume stored on a dynamic disk. Basic volumes and dynamic volumes differ in ability to extend storage beyond one physical disk. The basic partitions are confined to one disk and their size is fixed. Dynamic volumes allow to adjust size and to add more free space either from

1728-626: Is a table maintained on a disk by the operating system that outlines and describes the partitions on that disk. The terms partition table and partition map are similar terms and can be used interchangeably. The term is most commonly associated with the MBR partition table of a Master Boot Record (MBR) in PCs , but it may be used generically to refer to other formats that divide a disk drive into partitions, such as: GUID Partition Table (GPT), Apple partition map (APM), or BSD disklabel . This section describes

1800-557: Is based on GNOME and comes with a large set of applications, including StarOffice , Sun's office suite . Sun describes JDS as a "major component" of Solaris 10. The Java Desktop System is not included in Solaris 11 which instead ships with a stock version of GNOME. Likewise, CDE applications are no longer included in Solaris 11, but many libraries remain for binary backwards compatibility. The open source desktop environments KDE and Xfce , along with numerous other window managers , also compile and run on recent versions of Solaris. Sun

1872-462: Is called Solaris Containers for Linux Applications (SCLA), based on the branded zones functionality introduced in Solaris 10 8/07. Solaris can be installed from various pre-packaged software groups, ranging from a minimalistic Reduced Network Support to a complete Entire Plus OEM . Installation of Solaris is not necessary for an individual to use the system. The DVD ISO image can be used to load Solaris, running in-memory, rather than initiating

1944-408: Is divided into volumes or combined with other disks to form volumes that are greater in size than one disk itself. Volumes can use any supported file system . Basic disks can be upgraded to dynamic disks; however, when this is done the disk cannot easily be downgraded to a basic disk again. To perform a downgrade, data on the dynamic disk must first be backed up onto some other storage device. Second,

2016-424: Is implemented can contain at most four primary partitions , or alternatively three primary partitions and an extended partition . The Partition Table , located in the master boot record, contains 16-byte entries, each of which describes a partition. The partition type is identified by a 1-byte code found in its partition table entry. Some of these codes (such as 0x05 and 0x0F ) may be used to indicate

2088-437: Is marketed as a combined package. This has led to more reliable systems, but at a cost premium compared to commodity PC hardware. However, it has supported x86 systems since Solaris 2.1 and 64-bit x86 applications since Solaris 10, allowing Sun to capitalize on the availability of commodity 64-bit CPUs based on the x86-64 architecture. Sun heavily marketed Solaris for use with both its own x86-64-based Sun Java Workstation and

2160-399: Is possible to use multiple partitions on a disk device. Each partition can be formatted with a file system or as a swap partition . Multiple partitions allow directories such as /boot , /tmp , /usr , /var , or /home to be allocated their own filesystems. Such a scheme has a number of advantages: A common minimal configuration for Linux systems is to use three partitions: one holding

2232-406: Is reserved by the setup program of Windows with a kernel version of 5.x lest the disk would be upgraded to a dynamic one. The amount that is reserved is one cylinder or 1 MB, whichever is greater. One cylinder depending on drive geometry and translation can be up to 8 MB (to be precise, 512 bytes/sector × 63 sectors/head × 255 heads/cylinder = 8225280 bytes = 7.844 MiB) which account for

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2304-618: Is simple. But some cases may require quite a bit of fine-tuning. I think that Sun has put some really nice touches on Solaris 10 that make it a better operating system for both administrators and users. The security enhancements are a long time coming, but are worth the wait. Is Solaris 10 perfect, in a word no it is not. But for most uses, including a desktop OS I think Solaris 10 is a huge improvement over previous releases. We've had fun with Solaris 10. It's got virtues that we definitely admire. What it needs to compete with Linux will be easier to bring about than what it's already got. It could become

2376-438: Is the platform's reliability, flexibility, and power. Be that as it may, since the Solaris 10 download is free, it behooves any IT manager to load it on an extra server and at least give it a try. Solaris 10 provides a flexible background for securely dividing system resources, providing performance guarantees and tracking usage for these containers. Creating basic containers and populating them with user applications and resources

2448-589: Is used almost exclusively to refer only to the releases based on SVR4-derived SunOS 5.0 and later. For releases based on SunOS 5, the SunOS minor version is included in the Solaris release number. For example, Solaris 2.4 incorporates SunOS 5.4. After Solaris 2.6, the 2. was dropped from the release name, so Solaris 7 incorporates SunOS 5.7, and the latest release SunOS 5.11 forms the core of Solaris 11.4. Although SunSoft stated in its initial Solaris 2 press release their intent to eventually support both SPARC and x86 systems,

2520-399: The Linux kernel starting with version 2.4.8. Dynamic disks under Windows are provided with the use of databases stored on disk(s). The volumes are referred to as dynamic volumes. It is possible to have 2000 dynamic volumes per dynamic disk, but the maximum recommended by Microsoft is 32. Only server versions of Windows ( Windows Server ) can support RAID5 feature of LDM. ^1 On

2592-539: The master boot record (MBR) partitioning scheme, as used historically in DOS , Microsoft Windows and Linux (among others) on PC-compatible computer systems. As of the mid-2010s, most new computers use the GUID Partition Table (GPT) partitioning scheme instead. For examples of other partitioning schemes, see the general article on partition tables . The total data storage space of a PC HDD on which MBR partitioning

2664-505: The Intel Itanium architecture was announced in 1997 but never brought to market. On November 28, 2007, IBM , Sun, and Sine Nomine Associates demonstrated a preview of OpenSolaris for System z running on an IBM System z mainframe under z/VM , called Sirius (in analogy to the Polaris project, and also due to the primary developer's Australian nationality: HMS Sirius of 1786 was

2736-518: The OpenSolaris project, replacing SXDE. The first release of this distribution was OpenSolaris 2008.05 . The Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) was intended specifically for OpenSolaris developers. It was updated every two weeks until it was discontinued in January 2010, with a recommendation that users migrate to the OpenSolaris distribution. Although the download license seen when downloading

2808-618: The Oracle Technology Network and used without a support contract indefinitely; however, the license only expressly permits the user to use Solaris as a development platform and expressly forbids commercial and "production" use. Educational use is permitted in some circumstances. From the OTN license: If You are an educational institution vested with the power to confer official high school, associate, bachelor, master and/or doctorate degrees, or local equivalent, ("Degree(s)"), You may also use

2880-465: The Oracle acquisition in 2010, the OpenSolaris distribution was discontinued and later discontinued providing public updates to the source code of the Solaris kernel, effectively turning Solaris version 11 back into a closed source proprietary operating system. Following that, OpenSolaris was forked as Illumos and is alive through several Illumos distributions . In September 2017, Oracle laid off most of

2952-751: The Programs as part of Your educational curriculum for students enrolled in Your Degree program(s) solely as required for the conferral of such Degree (collectively "Educational Use"). When 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. Notable features of Solaris include DTrace , Doors , Service Management Facility , Solaris Containers , Solaris Multiplexed I/O , Solaris Volume Manager , ZFS , and Solaris Trusted Extensions . Updates to Solaris versions are periodically issued. In

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3024-404: The Solaris 2 FAQ. The underlying Solaris codebase has been under continuous development since work began in the late 1980s on what was eventually released as Solaris 2.0. Each version such as 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. Updates to that project are built and delivered several times

3096-423: The Solaris teams. In 1987, AT&T Corporation and Sun announced that they were collaborating on a project to merge the most popular Unix variants on the market at that time: Berkeley Software Distribution , UNIX System V , and Xenix . This became Unix System V Release 4 (SVR4). On September 4, 1991, Sun announced that it would replace its existing BSD-derived Unix, SunOS 4 , with one based on SVR4. This

3168-422: The creation of one or more regions on secondary storage , so that each region can be managed separately. These regions are called partitions. It is typically the first step of preparing a newly installed disk after a partitioning scheme is chosen for the new disk before any file system is created. The disk stores the information about the partitions' locations and sizes in an area known as the partition table that

3240-547: The current development basis was made available for download on a monthly basis, allowing anyone to try out new features and test the quality and stability of the OS as it progressed to the release of the next official Solaris version. A later change to this program introduced a quarterly release model with support available, renamed Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE). In 2007, Sun announced Project Indiana with several goals, including providing an open source binary distribution of

3312-409: The difference, see Basic and dynamic disks and volumes , below.) Basic storage involves dividing a disk into primary and extended partitions . This is the route that all versions of Windows that were reliant on DOS -handled storage took, and disks formatted in this manner are known as basic disks. Dynamic storage involves the use of a single partition that covers the entire disk, and the disk itself

3384-580: The dynamic disk must be re-formatted as a basic disk (erasing all data). Finally, data from the backup must be copied back over to the newly re-formatted basic disk. Dynamic disks provide the capability for software implementations of RAID . The main disadvantage of dynamic disks in Microsoft Windows is that they can only be recognized under certain operating systems, such as Windows 2000 or later (excluding versions such as Windows XP Home Edition, and Windows Vista Home Basic and Premium), FreeBSD , or

3456-419: The first partition. All Windows operating systems from Windows 95 onwards can be located on (almost) any partition, but the boot files ( io.sys , bootmgr , ntldr , etc.) must reside on a primary partition. However, other factors, such as a PC's BIOS (see Boot sequence on standard PC ) may also impose specific requirements as to which partition must contain the primary OS. The partition type code for

3528-692: The first two Solaris 2 releases, 2.0 and 2.1, were SPARC-only. An x86 version of Solaris 2.1 was released in June 1993, about 6 months after the SPARC version, as a desktop and uniprocessor workgroup server operating system. It included the Wabi emulator to support Windows applications. At the time, Sun also offered the Interactive Unix system that it had acquired from Interactive Systems Corporation . In 1994, Sun released Solaris 2.4, supporting both SPARC and x86 systems from

3600-417: The image files indicates its use is limited to personal, educational and evaluation purposes, the license acceptance form displayed when the user actually installs from these images lists additional uses including commercial and production environments. SXCE releases terminated with build 130 and OpenSolaris releases terminated with build 134 a few weeks later. The next release of OpenSolaris based on build 134

3672-660: The installation. Additional software, like Apache, MySQL, etc. can be installed as well in a packaged form from sunfreeware and OpenCSW . 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. There are several types of updates within each major release, including the Software Packages, and the Oracle Solaris Image. Additional minor updates called Support Repository Updates (SRUs) and Critical Patch Update Packages (CPUs), require

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3744-496: The like. The license varied only little through 2004. From 2005 to 2010, Sun began to release the source code for development builds of Solaris under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) via the OpenSolaris project. This code was based on the work being done for the post-Solaris 10 release (code-named "Nevada"; eventually released as Oracle Solaris 11). As the project progressed, it grew to encompass most of

3816-424: The necessary code to compile an entire release, with a few exceptions. When Sun was acquired by Oracle in 2010, the OpenSolaris project was discontinued after the board became unhappy with Oracle's stance on the project. In March 2010, the previously freely available Solaris 10 was placed under a restrictive license that limited the use, modification and redistribution of the operating system. The license allowed

3888-452: The operating system reads before any other part of the disk. Each partition then appears to the operating system as a distinct "logical" disk that uses part of the actual disk. System administrators use a program called a partition editor to create, resize, delete, and manipulate the partitions. Partitioning allows the use of different filesystems to be installed for different kinds of files. Separating user data from system data can prevent

3960-424: The past, these were named after the month and year of their release, such as "Solaris 10 1/13"; as of Solaris 11, sequential update numbers are appended to the release name with a period, such as "Oracle Solaris 11.4". In ascending order, the following versions of Solaris have been released: A more comprehensive summary of some Solaris versions is also available. Solaris releases are also described in

4032-487: The port was canceled before the Solaris 2.6 release. In January 2006, a community of developers at Blastwave began work on a PowerPC port which they named Polaris . In October 2006, an OpenSolaris community project based on the Blastwave efforts and Sun Labs' Project Pulsar , which re-integrated the relevant parts from Solaris 2.5.1 into OpenSolaris, announced its first official source code release. A port of Solaris to

4104-411: The presence of an extended partition . Most are used by an operating system's bootloader (that examines partition tables) to decide if a partition contains a file system that can be mounted / accessed for reading or writing data. A primary partition contains one file system. In DOS and all early versions of Microsoft Windows systems, Microsoft required what it called the system partition to be

4176-465: The primary partition, doesn't have the extended partition and the logical partition. BIOS boot partition (BIOS BP) is a share of the storage device used to keep software that boots the operating system, a bootloader . It may be an operating system kernel image or bootloader or a completely separate piece of software. EFI system partition is the same as BIOS BP, but is loaded by EFI firmware instead of BIOS. Solaris 11 Oracle Solaris

4248-406: The same disk or another physical disk. Striped volumes (RAID 0) and spanned volumes (SPAN) are dynamic volumes using space on different physical disks. In Windows XP, spanned volume can use a maximum of 32 physical disks. The main differences between basic and dynamic disks are: Dynamic disks allow more flexible configuration without the need to restart the system. Some space at the end of the disk

4320-462: The same storage device. In such systems a menu at startup gives a choice of which OS to boot/start (and only one OS at a time is loaded). This is distinct from virtual operating systems , in which one operating system is run as a self-contained virtual "program" within another already-running operating system. (An example is a Windows OS "virtual machine" running from within a Linux OS.) The GUID Partition Table ( G lobally U nique ID entifier )

4392-532: The slicing of a cake into several pieces. The term "slice" is used in the FreeBSD operating system to refer to Master Boot Record partitions, to avoid confusion with FreeBSD's own disklabel -based partitioning scheme. However, GUID Partition Table partitions are referred to as "partition" worldwide. Multi-boot systems are computers where the user can boot into more than one distinct operating system (OS) stored in separate storage devices or in separate partitions of

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4464-424: The system files mounted on "/" (the root directory ), one holding user configuration files and data mounted on /home ( home directory ), and a swap partition. By default, macOS systems also use a single partition for the entire filesystem and use a swap file inside the file system (like Windows) rather than a swap partition. In Solaris, partitions are sometimes known as slices . This is a conceptual reference to

4536-414: The system partition from becoming full and rendering the system unusable. Partitioning can also make backing up easier. A disadvantage is that it can be difficult to properly size partitions, resulting in having one partition with too much free space and another nearly totally allocated. IBM in its 1983 release of PC DOS version 2.0 was an early if not first use of the term partition to describe dividing

4608-412: The use of the accompanying binary software in machine-readable form, together with accompanying documentation ("Software"), by the number of users and the class of computer hardware for which the corresponding fee has been paid. In addition, the license provided a "License to Develop" granting rights to create derivative works, restricted copying to only a single archival copy, disclaimer of warranties, and

4680-508: The user to download the operating system free of charge, through the Oracle Technology Network , and use it for a 90-day trial period. After that trial period had expired the user would then have to purchase a support contract from Oracle to continue using the operating system. With the release of Solaris 11 in 2011, the license terms changed again. The new license allows Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 to be downloaded free of charge from

4752-502: The x86-64 models of the Sun Ultra series workstations , and servers based on AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors, as well as x86 systems manufactured by companies such as Dell , Hewlett-Packard , and IBM . As of 2009 , the following vendors support Solaris for their x86 server systems: Solaris 2.5.1 included support for the PowerPC platform ( PowerPC Reference Platform ), but

4824-632: Was based upon the Motif look and feel and the old OPEN LOOK desktop environment was considered legacy. CDE unified Unix desktops across multiple open system vendors. CDE was available as an unbundled add-on for Solaris 2.4 and 2.5, and was included in Solaris 2.6 through 10. In 2001, Sun issued a preview release of the open-source desktop environment GNOME 1.4, based on the GTK+ toolkit, for Solaris 8. Solaris 9 8/03 introduced GNOME 2.0 as an alternative to CDE. Solaris 10 includes Sun's Java Desktop System (JDS), which

4896-537: 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 2010.11 in November 2010. All in all, Sun has stayed the course with Solaris 9. While its more user-friendly management is welcome, that probably won't be enough to win over converts. What may

4968-454: Was identified internally as SunOS 5 , but a new marketing name was introduced at the same time: Solaris 2 . The justification for this new overbrand was that it encompassed not only SunOS, but also the OpenWindows graphical user interface and Open Network Computing (ONC) functionality. Although SunOS 4.1. x micro releases were retroactively named Solaris 1 by Sun, the Solaris name

5040-450: Was investing in a new desktop environment called Project Looking Glass since 2003. The project has been inactive since late 2006. For versions up to 2005 (Solaris 9), 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. The key license grant was: License to Use. Customer is granted a non-exclusive and non-transferable license ("License") for

5112-520: Was renamed Oracle Solaris. Solaris was registered as compliant with the Single UNIX Specification until 29 April 2019. Historically, Solaris was developed as proprietary software . In June 2005, Sun Microsystems released most of the codebase under the CDDL license, and founded the OpenSolaris open-source project. Sun aimed to build a developer and user community with OpenSolaris; after

5184-502: Was the last release under Solaris 8. The OPEN LOOK Window Manager ( olwm ) with other OPEN LOOK specific applications were dropped in Solaris 9, but support libraries were still bundled, providing long term binary backwards compatibility with existing applications. The OPEN LOOK Virtual Window Manager (olvwm) can still be downloaded for Solaris from sunfreeware and works on releases as recent as Solaris 10. Sun and other Unix vendors created an industry alliance to standardize Unix desktops. As

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