Glossary

Hardware and Drivers

HCL Hardware Compatibility List. Use this searchable, sortable list to show systems (including laptops) and components that work with the Solaris OS. Hardware that has passed HCTS testing is listed as certified. Other hardware is listed as RTW (Reported To Work).

HCTS Hardware Certification Test Suite. Use this tool to certify that your hardware is compatible with the Solaris OS. Certified hardware is shown as certified on the HCL.

Solaris for x86 Device Support Use this list to find which Solaris release has the drivers you need.

Sun Device Detection Tool Use this tool to quickly determine whether the Solaris OS will install on your system and support all of your devices.

Other

Caiman Informal name of the new Solaris install project. See the Caiman OpenSolaris project.

DTrace Dynamic Tracing tool. See the sun.com Observability site and the DTrace OpenSolaris community.

FMA Fault Management Architecture. See the Fault Management OpenSolaris community.

FOSS Free and Open Source Software. See FOSS India.

NWAM Network Auto-Magic OpenSolaris project.

SXDE Solaris Express Developer Edition.

xVM A virtualization and management tool based on the Xen open-source hypervisor. See the sun.com xVM site and the Xen OpenSolaris community.

ZFS Zettabyte File System. See the sun.com ZFS Learning Center and the ZFS OpenSolaris community.

Zones An operating system abstraction for partitioning systems, allowing multiple applications to run in isolation from each other on the same physical hardware. See the sun.com Virtualization site and the Zones OpenSolaris community.