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SunOS is a Unix-branded operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for their workstation and server computer systems from 1982 until the mid-1990s. The SunOS name is usually only used to refer to versions 1.0 to 4.1.4, which were based on BSD, while versions 5.0 and later are based on UNIX System V Release 4 and are marketed under the brand name Solaris.
Oracle Solaris 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by Oracle for SPARC and x86-64 based workstations and servers.Originally developed by Sun Microsystems as Solaris, it superseded the company's earlier SunOS in 1993 and became known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as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.
Oracle Solaris; Solaris Cluster; Solaris Containers; Solaris IP network multipathing; Solaris Multiplexed I/O; Solaris network virtualization and resource control; Solaris Trusted Extensions; Solaris Volume Manager; Spring (operating system) Squawk virtual machine; StarOffice; Sun Constellation System; Sun Java System; Sun Java System Calendar ...
Oracle Developer Studio, formerly named Oracle Solaris Studio, Sun Studio, Sun WorkShop, Forte Developer, and SunPro Compilers, is the Oracle Corporation's flagship software development product for the Solaris and Linux operating systems.
Java Desktop System OpenSolaris 2009.6 Desktop (discontinued). Java Desktop System, briefly known as OpenSolaris Desktop, is a legacy [1] desktop environment developed first by Sun Microsystems and then by Oracle Corporation after the 2010 Oracle acquisition of Sun. Java Desktop System is available for Solaris and was once available for Linux.
Sun dropped the Solaris 2.x version numbering scheme after the Solaris 2.6 release (1997); the following version was branded Solaris 7. This was the first 64-bit release, intended for the new UltraSPARC CPUs based on the SPARC V9 architecture. Within the next four years, the successors Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 were released in 2000 and 2002 ...
SunView (Sun Visual/Integrated Environment for Workstations [1]: 3 ) is a discontinued user interface toolkit and windowing system from Sun Microsystems, launched in 1985, [2] and included as part of its Unix implementation, starting with SunOS Release 3.0.
These tables compare each noteworthy distribution's latest stable release on wide-ranging objective criteria. It does not cover each operating system's subjective merits, branches marked as unstable or beta, nor compare Solaris distributions with other operating systems.