Thursday Oct 08, 2009
Today, October 8 2009, coinciding with my personal 10 year anniversary in the US, Solaris 10 10/09 has been released and is available for free download here.
Major new features are around ZFS improvements and enhancements, and patching and packaging improvements.
Lots of info in the press release.
Here is also great overview.
And, as always, there is plenty of information on the Solaris 10 web page.
Thursday Oct 08, 2009
With Oracle's pending acquisition of Sun, its publicly claimed interest in Solaris, and with the latest Solaris release out of the door just today, it should be no surprise that both Sun
technologies and Solaris specifically have a major presence at this
years Oracle Open World in San Francisco, CA, Oct 11 - 14.
In fact, Sun is an Innovation Sponsor.
So, if you attend, make sure to check out the plenty of Solaris demonstrations at Sun booth, and listen to the plenty of Solaris talks in the different meeting rooms.
For a great overview, check out the
Solaris OOW page.
Tuesday Mar 24, 2009
Logical Domains (LDoms) provide built-in and no-cost virtualization capabilities for Sun's CoolThreads Servers.
It allows you to create virtual machines that
take advantage of the massive thread scale offered by these platforms.
Create up to 256 virtual servers on one system... for free!
With LDoms 1.1, the ability to migrate a guest domain, i.e. suspend the running Solaris instance to memory, copy it to another physical CMT machine, and resume it there, was introduced.
Watch the following screencast to see how this works and can be done.
Friday Jul 11, 2008
Several people ask and asked me about what different Solaris version and distributions actually exist, and what are the differences.
Having seen this very good entry on the great - German - Solaris blog "Das Solarium", I thought I take the freedom and translate it into English:
Solaris 9
- It's still shipping
- Supported by Sun Services
- No more innovations or updates
- Source code is maintained by Sun Services
- Needs a valid license
- For SPARC and x86 platforms
Solaris 10
- Current version
- Supported by Sun Services
- Typically a six month update cycle
- Current update is Update 5 (Solaris 10 5/08)
- Updates typically bring new innovation, performance gains, fixes, new hardware support, etc.
- For SPARC and x86 platforms
OpenSolaris - The Source
- That's what's called "Nevada"
- Available at, and everything you need to know, at: opensolaris.org
- Source code and tools to produce Solaris binaries and distributions
- Source code maintained by OpenSolaris community developers
- Great innovation that might eventually be built into future Solaris releases
- Ongoing source code updates
- No support available, bugs and defects can be discussed at opensolaris.org
- Free to use
- Participate !
SXCE - Solaris Express Community Edition
- Binary distribution of Nevada source
- Ready to be installed, like Solaris
- Test new features without having to build them yourself
- Typically, a new build by Sun Solaris Engineering ca. every two weeks
- Free to use
- For SPARC and x86 platforms
SXDE - Solaris Express Developer Edition
- Binary distribution tailored specifically for developers
- To test some features, which also includes developer tools
- Release 1/08 (January 2008) was the latest and last release (now, OpenSolaris 2008.05 is available - see below)
- Free to use
- For x86 platforms only
OpenSolaris 2008.05
- That's what's called "Indiana"
- Binary distribution released by Sun Microsystems
- Bootable LiveCD available
- Great for developers and students !
- Lots of new features and innovations, such as IPS, ZFS boot, etc.
- Several package repositories available
- Release cycle will be ca. every six months
- New 18 month support model, specifically for OpenSolaris
- Free to use, pay for support
- For now on x86 platforms, SPARC to follow soon
Other OpenSolaris-based distributions do also exist, and can be checked out here.
Wednesday Jul 09, 2008
Having been at Sun for several years, I recently joined the Solaris Technical Marketing Team at Sun. It's an exciting place to work, as it is very cool to work with the well-respected and proven Solaris Operating System, but also with some other leading-edge technology such as Sun xVM VirtualBox, OpenSolaris, the OpenSolaris Community, and many more technologies and aspect of the IT world.
I know that there are many other geeks out there.
However, there are also many people that might be thankful for some simpler, yet detailed explanations of certain aspects of those technologies.
I'll try to provide that.
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