Sun Microsystems has fulfilled its pledge to make its newest version of the Solaris operating system available for free. On Monday evening, the server and software company began offering Solaris 10 as ...

Solaris 10 is at risk of a zero-day exploit, due to security bugs in its telnet service, Sun Microsystems warned Tuesday. The "highly critical" vulnerabilities could enable attackers to gain ...

SAN JOSE — While Sun Microsystems Inc. officially launched Solaris 10 here last week, the future prospects of the operating system—and perhaps of Sun itself—were being judged many miles away by early ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is adding an advanced, more powerful 128-bit ZFS file system, new virtualization technologies and the Postgres open-source database to its Solaris 10 Unix operating system, as ...

Sun CEO Scott McNealy unleashed the first small piece of Solaris 10 code, the DTrace utility, to be open-sourced, promising that the bulk of Solaris 10 will be available under Sun's recently approved ...

I'm a Windows sysadmin. After avoiding anything Unix for years, I need to learn Solaris rather quickly. I'm not in charge of any Solaris boxes; I just need to speak intelligently with Solaris admins.

Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Solaris 10 8/11, which provides enhancements to Oracle Solaris ZFS and Oracle Solaris install technologies, advanced support for the latest SPARC and ...

The ostensible confusion within Sun over the relationship between its first-born Solaris and sibling-rival Linux won’t be cleared up by the open source license it submitted to the Open Source ...

So I've got an Ultra5 on the way, I got a Penguine PCI card with a K6-2 400Mhz and 512m RAM. I'm planning on throwing Solaris 10 on there. What/how do I install an OS onto the Penguin card?<BR><BR>Is ...

Sun Microsystems first added virtualization features to its proprietary Unix OS with Solaris Domains, a technology that was found only on expensive, heavyweight Sun hardware such as the E10000. That’s ...

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