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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by Oracle for SPARC and x86-64 based workstations and servers.Originally developed by Sun Microsystems as Solaris, it superseded the company's earlier SunOS in 1993 and became known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as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 VM Server for x86 is a server virtualization offering from Oracle Corporation. Oracle VM Server for x86 incorporates the free and open-source Xen hypervisor technology, supports Windows , Linux , and Solaris [ 3 ] guests and includes an integrated Web based management console.
Solaris 2.0, the first release of the successor to SunOS 4, included OpenWindows 3.0.1. Starting with Solaris 2.3 in late 1993, Sun switched to a standard X11R5 release of X11. It was still called OpenWindows (now version 3.3), but the NeWS protocol was replaced by support for Display PostScript .
“Enterprise Grade Unified Block & File Storage” [2] Commercial OmniOSce: OmniTI / OmniOSce Association 2012 [3] illumos, GNU: r151050 (May 6, 2024) [4] Active “Produce a self-hosting, minimalist Illumos-based release suitable for production deployment” [5] Gratis OpenIndiana: illumos Foundation et al. 2010 illumos, OpenSolaris, GNU
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.
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 ...
Release date Notable changes 3.2 May 19, 2010: Mac OS X Server guest support – experimental; Memory ballooning (not available on Solaris hosts) RAM deduplication (Page Fusion) for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts; CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove) and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) Deleting snapshots while the VM is running
Solaris Containers (including Solaris Zones) is an implementation of operating system-level virtualization technology for x86 and SPARC systems, first released publicly in February 2004 in build 51 beta of Solaris 10, and subsequently in the first full release of Solaris 10, 2005.