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Operating System

Joshua GuillanoJufel Blaze

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“ If you can't make it good,

at least make it look good”

-Bill Gates-

INTRODUCTIONWhat is an operating system?

An operating system is the most important

software that runs on a computer. It manages the

computer's memory, processes, and all of its

software and hardware. It also allows you

to communicate with the computer without knowing how

to speak the computer's "language." Without an operating system, a computer is useless.

SOLARISAbout

Solaris is the computer operating system that Sun Microsystems provides

for its family of Scalable Processor Architecture-based processors as well as

for Intel-based processors.Sun has historically dominated the large UNIX workstation market. As the Internet grew in the early 1990s, Sun's

SPARC/Solaris systems became the most widely installed servers for Web sites. 

Sun emphasizes the system's availability (meaning it seldom crashes), its large number of features, and its Internet-

oriented design. Sun advertises that its latest version, the Solaris 8 Operating Environment, is "the leading UNIX

environment" today.

Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as DTrace, ZFS and Time Slider.

Solaris was historically developed as proprietary software.

Subsequently, in June 2005, Sun Microsystems released most of

the codebase, under the CDDL license, and founded

the OpenSolaris, open source project.With OpenSolaris, Sun wanted to

build a developer and user community around the software.

After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January 2010,

Oracle decided to discontinue the OpenSolaris distribution and the

development model.

HISTORYIn 1987, AT&T Corporation and Sun announced that they were collaborating on a project to merge the most popular Unix variants on the market at

that time: BSD, System V, and Xenix. This became Unix System V Release 4 (SVR4).

On September 4, 1991, Sun announced that it would replace its existing BSD-derived Unix, SunOS 4, with one based on SVR4. This was identified internally as SunOS 5,

but a new marketing name was introduced at the same time: Solaris 2.Although SunOS 4.1.x micro releases

were retroactively named Solaris 1 by Sun, the Solaris name is used almost exclusively to refer to the

SVR4-derived SunOS 5.0 and later Solaris 11.2.

FeaturesIts availability.

Special features make it easy to add new capability or to fix problems without having to restart the system. Solaris has exercised and fixed almost any code path that might break. It can be upgraded, monitored, and controlled from a remote console.

Its scalability .If you move to a larger processor, your applications should not only run, but run faster. Solaris can handle heavy multi-tasking work.It is built for network computing. As part of the first and most successful Web server system in history, the latest Solaris systems are built on the company's experience with early Web sites and network demands.

It includes security features. These include support for IPSec, Kerberos, AMI, and smart cards.

Sun provides three extensions for its Solaris operating system:The Easy Access Server, which is designed to run in a

network that also has Windows NT systemsThe Enterprise Server, which is aimed at the "business-critical" environment, and includes support for clustering

The Internet Service Provider (ISP) Server

AdvantagesReboot is not required for Solaris so it can run 24/7.

It support zfs file system.

It can handle many users at a time.

In Solaris we have many good backup tools.

Fully virus protected.

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Disadvantages

This OS is not user friendly.

It is not recommended to run Solaris on other architectures.

Lack of good GUI.

Not a OS for home users.

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System Requirements

2 GB minimum for the smallest set of packages6 GB for the most popular Solaris packagesMinimum of 512MB RAM, 1.5 GB RAM or Higher is Recommended32 and 64 bit systems based on AMD, Intel and VIA x86 CPUs.Sun Ultra SPARC-based (sun4u architecture)Sun Ultra SPARC-based processors (sun4v architecture)

Note: Memory requirements will vary depending on the application software being used, system configurations and the number of clients/users. Refer to the release notes for details of minimum and recommended memory for different configurations

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