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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.
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by Oracle for SPARC and x86-64 based workstations and servers.Originally developed by Sun Microsystems as Solaris, it superseded the company's earlier SunOS in 1993 and became known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as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 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.
OpenSolaris was based on Solaris, which was originally released by Sun in 1991. Solaris is a version of UNIX System V Release 4 (SVR4), jointly developed by Sun and AT&T to merge features from several existing Unix systems. It was licensed by Sun from Novell to replace SunOS. [13] Planning for OpenSolaris started in early 2004.
Linux Mint: Clement Lefebvre dev team: 2006 22.1 [46] 5 years (main editions); ~3 years 2025-01-16 X Debian (LMDE), Ubuntu (main editions) desktop None Active Linux Lite: Jerry Bezencon Linux Lite Team 2012 7.2 [47] ? 2024-10-31 X Ubuntu: desktop None Active Mageia: Mageia Community mageia.org 2010 9 [48] 1 year 2023-09-04 X Mandriva Linux general
Illumos was announced via webinar on 3 August 2010, [9] as a community effort of a group of core Solaris engineers to create a truly open source Solaris, by swapping closed source bits of OpenSolaris with open implementations. [10] [11] [12] OpenSolaris itself is based on System V Release 4 (SVR4) and the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).
Bedrock Linux is a meta Linux distribution with a modular design philosophy which enables the user to integrate chosen features of otherwise disparate distros. Bedrock Linux's development began 2009-06-06; its latest version 0.7.30 was released 2023-04-22, [1] with the 0.7 series being named Poki (as with all major releases the name being taken from either Avatar: The Last Air Bender or the ...
Nexenta OS, officially known as the Nexenta Core Platform, is a discontinued computer operating system based on OpenSolaris and Ubuntu that runs on IA-32- and x86-64-based systems. It emerged in fall 2005, after Sun Microsystems started the OpenSolaris project in June of that year. [ 2 ]