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Solaris Last modified: Friday, January 10, 2003

An Unix-based operating environment developed by Sun Microsystems. Originally developed to run on Sun's SPARC workstations, Solaris now runs on many workstations from other vendors. Solaris includes the SunOS operating system and a windowing system (either OpenWindows or CDE). Solaris currently supports multithreading, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), integrated TCP/IP networking, and centralized network administration. A Wabi emulator is available to run Windows applications.

Daily Solaris News and Resources  The site features the latest headline news affecting Solaris users and administrators. The resources cover a range of FAQ issues, along with security bulletins. It is a daily read for a Solaris Admin. Solaris2.x FAQ  Comprehensive FAQ covering many aspects of the Solaris operating environment. Sections include: general information and resources, system administration, networking, troubleshooting, and software development. Sun white papers Contains a collection of white papers for Sun's Solaris operating environment, Solstice intranet management, Workshop developer products, and network security. Sun's Solaris product page Home page for Sun Solaris. There are news items and links to product and solution information, a section on networking as well as frequently asked questions and white papers. UNIX system administration tools Contains links to resources for UNIX and Solaris system administration, newsgroups, maintenance tools, network administration, user and X applications. Yahoo!'s Solaris page Yahoo!'s directory of Solaris. Freeware for Solaris Pre-compiled free software for Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.5, 2.6, 7, and the Solaris 8 operating systems.