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eled before the solaris 2 6 release 31 in january 2006 a community of developers at blastwave began work on a powerpc port which they named polaris 32 in october 2006 an opensolaris community project based on the blastwave efforts and sun labs project pulsar 33 which re integrated the relevant parts from solaris 2 5 1 into opensolaris 31 announced its first official source code release 34 a port of solaris to the intel itanium architecture was announced in 1997 but never brought to market 35 on november 28 2007 ibm sun and sine nomine associates demonstrated a preview of opensolaris for system z running on an ibm system z mainframe under z vm 36 called sirius in analogy to the polaris project and also due to the primary developer s australian nationality hms sirius of 1786 was a ship of the first fleet to australia on october 17 2008 a prototype release of sirius was made available 37 and on november 19 the same year ibm authorized the use of sirius on system z integrated facility for linux ifl processors 38 solaris also supports the linux platform application binary interface abi allowing solaris to run native linux binaries on x86 systems this feature is called solaris containers for linux applications scla based on the branded zones functionality introduced in solaris 10 8 07 39 installation and usage options edit solaris can be installed from various pre packaged software groups ranging from a minimalistic reduced network support to a complete entire plus oem installation of solaris is not necessary for an individual to use the system additional software like apache mysql etc can be installed as well in a packaged form from sunfreeware 40 and opencsw 41 solaris can be installed from physical media or a network for use on a desktop or server or be used without installing on a desktop or server citation needed desktop environments edit solaris 2 4 via telnet olvwm with openwindows on solaris early releases of solaris used openwindows as the standard desktop environment in solaris 2 0 to 2 2 openwindows supported both news and x applications and provided backward compatibility for sunview applications from sun s older desktop environment news allowed applications to be built in an object oriented way using postscript a common printing language released in 1982 the x window system originated from mit s project athena in 1984 and allowed for the display of an application to be disconnected from the machine where the application was running separated by a network connection sun s original bundled sunview application suite was ported to x sun later dropped support for legacy sunview applications and news with openwindows 3 3 which shipped with solaris 2 3 and switched to x11r5 with display postscript support the graphical look and feel remained based upon open look openwindows 3 6 2 was the last release under solaris 8 the open look window manager olwm with other open look specific applications were dropped in solaris 9 but support libraries were still bundled providing long term binary backwards compatibility with existing applications the open look virtual window manager olvwm can still be downloaded for solaris from sunfreeware and works on releases as recent as solaris 10 the common desktop environment cde was open sourced in august 2012 this is a screenshot of cde running on solaris 10 sun and other unix vendors created an industry alliance to standardize unix desktops as a member of the common open software environment cose initiative sun helped co develop the common desktop environment cde this was an initiative to create a standard unix desktop environment each vendor contributed different components hewlett packard contributed the window manager ibm provided the file manager and sun provided the e mail and calendar facilities as well as drag and drop support tooltalk this new desktop environment was based upon the motif look and feel and the old open look desktop environment was considered legacy cde unified unix desktops across multiple open system vendors cde was available as an unbundled add on for solaris 2 4 and 2 5 and was included in solaris 2 6 through 10 screenshot of the java desktop system jds running on solaris 10 in 2001 sun issued a preview release of the open source desktop environment gnome 1 4 based on the gtk toolkit for solaris 8 42 solaris 9 8 03 introduced gnome 2 0 as an alternative to cde solaris 10 includes sun s java desktop system jds which is based on gnome and comes with a large set of applications including staroffice sun s office suite sun describes jds as a major component of solaris 10 43 the java desktop system is not included in solaris 11 which instead ships with a stock version of gnome 44 likewise cde applications are no longer included in solaris 11 but many libraries remain for binary backwards compatibility the open source desktop environments kde and xfce along with numerous other window managers also compile and run on recent versions of solaris sun was investing in a new desktop environment called project looking glass since 2003 the project has been inactive since late 2006 45 license edit traditional operating system license 1982 to 2004 edit for versions up to 2005 solaris 9 solaris was licensed under a license that permitted a customer to buy licenses in bulk and install the software on any machine up to a maximum number the key license grant was license to use customer is granted a non exclusive and non transferable license license for the use of the accompanying binary software in machine readable form together with accompanying documentation software by the number of users and the class of computer hardware for which the corresponding fee has been paid in addition the license provided a license to develop granting rights to create derivative works restricted copying to only a single archival copy disclaimer of warranties and the like the license varied only little through 2004 open source 2005 until march 2010 edit from 2005 10 sun began to release the source code for development builds of solaris under the common development and distribution license cddl via the opensolaris project this code was based on the work being done for the post solaris 10 release code named nevada eventually released as oracle solaris 11 as the project progressed it grew to encompass most of the necessary code to compile an entire release with a few exceptions 46 post sun closed source march 2010 to present edit when sun was acquired by oracle in 2010 the opensolaris project was discontinued after the board became unhappy with oracle s stance on the project 47 in march 2010 the previously freely available solaris 10 was placed under a restrictive license that limited the use modification and redistribution of the operating system 48 the license allowed the user to download the operating system free of charge through the oracle technology network and use it for a 90 day trial period after that trial period had expired the user would then have to purchase a support contract from oracle to continue using the operating system with the release of solaris 11 in 2011 the license terms changed again the new license allows solaris 10 and solaris 11 to be downloaded free of charge from the oracle technology network and used without a support contract indefinitely however the license only expressly permits the user to use solaris as a development platform and expressly forbids commercial and production use 49 educational use is permitted in some circumstances from the otn license if you are an educational institution vested with the power to confer official high school associate bachelor master and or doctorate degrees or local equivalent degree s you may also use the programs as part of your educational curriculum for students enrolled in your degree program s solely as required for the conferral of such degree collectively educational use when solaris is used without a support contract it can be upgraded to each new point release however a support contract is required for access to patches and updates that are released monthly 50 version history edit solaris logo used until solaris 9 solaris logo introduced with solaris 10 and used until oracle s acquisition of sun notable features of solaris include dtrace doors service management facility solaris containers solaris multiplexed i o solaris volume manager zfs and solaris trusted extensions updates to solaris versions are periodically issued in the past these were named after the month and year of their release such as solaris 10 1 13 as of solaris 11 sequential update numbers are appended to the release name with a period such as oracle solaris 11 4 in ascending order the following versions of solaris have been released legend old version not maintained older version still maintained current stable version latest preview version future release solaris version sunos version release date end of support 51 basis license form major new features sparc x86 sparc x86 old version no longer maintained 1 x 4 1 x 1991 1994 september 2003 4 3bsd traditional license sunos 4 rebranded as solaris 1 for marketing purposes see sunos article for more information old version no longer maintained 2 0 5 0 june 1992 january 1999 svr4 traditional license preliminary release primarily available to developers only support for only the sun4c architecture first appearance of nis 52 old version no longer maintained 2 1 5 1 december 1992 may 1993 april 1999 svr4 traditional license support for sun4 and sun4m architectures added first solaris x86 release first solaris 2 release to support smp old version no longer maintained 2 2 5 2 may 1993 may 1999 svr4 traditional license sparc only release first to support sun4d architecture first to support multithreading libraries ui threads api in libthread 53 old version no longer maintained 2 3 5 3 november 1993 june 2002 svr4 traditional license sparc only release openwindows 3 3 switches from news to display postscript and drops sunview support support added for autofs and cachefs filesystems old version no longer maintained 2 4 5 4 november 1994 september 2003 svr4 traditional license first unified sparc x86 release includes osf motif runtime support old version no longer maintained 2 5 5 5 november 1995 december 2003 svr4 traditional license first to support ultrasparc and include cde nfsv3 and nfs tcp dropped sun4 vmebus support posix 1c 1995 pthreads added doors added but undocumented 54 old version no longer maintained 2 5 1 5 5 1 may 1996 september 2005 svr4 traditional license the only solaris release that supports powerpc 55 ultra enterprise support added user and group ids uid_t gid_t expanded to 32 bits 56 also included processor sets 57 and early resource management technologies old version no longer maintained 2 6 5 6 july 1997 july 2006 svr4 traditional license includes kerberos 5 pam truetype fonts webnfs large file support enhanced procfs sparcserver 600mp series support dropped 58 old version no longer maintained 7 5 7 november 1998 august 2008 svr4 traditional license the first 64 bit ultrasparc release added native support for file system meta data logging ufs logging dropped mca support on x86 platform sun dropped the prefix 2 in the solaris version number leaving solaris 7 last update was solaris 7 11 99 59 old version no longer maintained 8 5 8 february 2000 march 2012 svr4 traditional license includes multipath i o solstice disksuite 60 ipmp first support for ipv6 and ipsec manual keying only mdb modular debugger introduced role based access control rbac sun4c support removed last update is solaris 8 2 04 61 old version no longer maintained 9 5 9 may 28 2002 january 10 2003 october 2014 svr4 traditional license iplanet directory server resource manager extended file attributes ike ipsec keying and linux compatibility added openwindows dropped sun4d support removed most current update is solaris 9 9 05 hw 62 older version yet still maintained 10 5 10 january 31 2005 17 years ago 2005 01 31 january 2024 svr4 before oracle acquisition in march 2010 open source under cddl after march 2010 post oracle closed source includes x86 64 amd64 intel 64 support dtrace dynamic tracing solaris containers service management facility smf which replaces init d scripts nfsv4 least privilege security model support for sun4m and ultrasparc i processors removed support for eisa based pcs removed adds java desktop system based on gnome as default desktop 63 solaris 10 1 06 known internally as u1 added the grub bootloader for x86 systems iscsi initiator support and fcinfo command line tool solaris 10 6 06 u2 added the zfs filesystem solaris 10 11 06 u3 added solaris trusted extensions and logical domains sun4v solaris 10 8 07 u4 added samba active directory support 64 ip instances part of the opensolaris network virtualization and resource control project iscsi target support and solaris containers for linux applications based on branded zones enhanced version of the resource capping daemon rcapd solaris 10 5 08 u5 added cpu capping for solaris containers performance improvements speedstep support for intel processors and powernow support for amd processors 65 66 solaris 10 10 08 u6 added boot from zfs and can use zfs as its root file system solaris 10 10 08 also includes virtualization enhancements including the ability for a solaris container to automatically update its environment when moved from one system to another logical domains support for dynamically reconfigurable disk and network i o and paravirtualization support when solaris 10 is used as a guest os in xen based environments such as sun xvm server 67 solaris 10 5 09 u7 added performance and power management support for intel nehalem processors container cloning using zfs cloned file systems and performance enhancements for zfs on solid state drives solaris 10 10 09 u8 added user and group level zfs quotas zfs cache devices and nss_ldap shadowaccount support improvements to patching performance 68 solaris 10 9 10 u9 added physical to zone migration zfs triple parity raid z and oracle solaris auto registration 69 solaris 10 8 11 u10 added zfs speedups and new features oracle database optimization faster reboot on sparc system 70 71 solaris 10 1 13 u11 see release notes 72 73 old version no longer maintained 11 express 2010 11 5 11 november 15 2010 11 years ago 2010 11 15 november 2011 svr4 post oracle closed source adds new packaging system ips image packaging system and associated tools zfs only for boot 1 gb ram min x86 solaris 10 containers network virtualization and quality of service qos virtual consoles zfs encryption and deduplication fast reboot 74 updated gnome removed xsun cde 75 and the usr ucb bsd compatible commands citation needed old version no longer maintained 11 5 11 november 9 2011 10 years ago 2011 11 09 svr4 post oracle closed source new features and enhancements compared to solaris 10 in software packaging network 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