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Solaris Maintenance

Solaris
KindOperating system
Appeared1992
StatusMaintenance
CreatorSun Microsystems → Oracle
FamilyUnix
PlatformSPARC, x86
Sourcewww.oracle.com ↗

SunOS gone System V — ZFS, DTrace, Zones; Oracle still maintains 11.4 while the community forked it into illumos.

Descended from Research Unix SunOS
Succeeded by illumos
Ran on SPARCstation 1
Created by Sun Microsystems
Descendants OpenSolaris
Predecessors Research Unix SunOS

Solaris (1992) was SunOS 5 — SVR4 replacing BSD, with Sun's own threading model, NFSv4, ZFS (2005), DTrace, and Zones/containers a decade before Docker. It was the workstation/ISP Unix of the 90s–2000s.\n\nOracle bought Sun in 2010; Solaris 11 shipped 2011 and is in maintenance. OpenSolaris's fork, illumos, continues the open line.

Sources

  1. oracle.com/solaris/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system)