Anita Pesola wrote:
>
> > With StarOffice, I can not only have the same user pull up his/her
> > files under Windows, Linux or Solaris,
>
> Sorry to sound like such an idiot, but....
>
> I've heard several references recently to Solaris. Can you tell me
> something about this--is it an OS, what's it's base (freeBSD, or
> whatever) and is it downloadable?
>
> Just curious...
Solaris is Sun Microsystems' version of UNIX that they run on their
SPARC architecture hardware. There is also a port of Solaris to x86
hardware but doesn't have quite the same level of support as the SPARC
version. (i.e. doesn't have as many drivers, not as much pre-compiled
software available even from Sun, etc.)
Solaris is derived from BSD UNIX and in fact one of Sun's four
co-founders is Bill Joy, who, with Marshall Kirk McCusick, created the
original BSD UNIX distribution at UC Berkeley.
At least until recently (they still might be doing this) Sun had an
offers where for a very minimal cost (I think $20) for "shipping and
handling" they would send you CD media of Solaris or, after registering,
you could download CD images to burn yourself. (I have the Solaris 8
media images for both SPARC and x86 platforms. I don't run Solaris/x86
anywhere, but I have a SPARC-based Sun Ultra 5 at home that runs
Solaris. (Yeah yeah, I could make it run SPARC-Linux, but it's
convenient for me to have a Solaris box available on occasion.))
It is absolutely not open-source or free-software, although Sun for a
little while was making source licenses available with very strict
restrictions on what you could do with the source.
You can find out more from:
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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/293/5537/2028
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