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General FAQs for Solaris 10
What is the Solaris Operating System?
For customers facing challenging business and technical requirements—such as lowering costs, simplifying system administration, and maintaining high service levels—the Solaris 10 OS is the ideal cross-platform choice. Its innovative, built-in features deliver breakthrough virtualization and utilization, high availability, advanced security, and industry leading performance to meet these stringent requirements—all at a great price.
To learn more about Solaris 10 visit our Solaris Adoption Learning Center.
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What is the OpenSolaris Operating System?
The OpenSolaris Operating System is a leading-edge open source release that is free to acquire and run, but that also offers the range of support options that enterprises value. The latest enhancements to Solaris features such as ZFS, Solaris Containers, and Predictive Self Healing, will be found in OpenSolaris first. And now, Project Crossbow brings network virtualization and resource management to OpenSolaris for the first time. In addition, the OpenSolaris OS contains features that are not planned to be included in the Solaris OS until the release following Solaris 10, such as the new Solaris installer, the latest GNOME desktop enhancements, and support for the latest wireless networking technologies.
To learn more visit OpenSolaris.com.
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What's new in Solaris 10 5/09?
The latest update to the Solaris 10 OS includes significant enhancements to the innovative Solaris ZFS file system. Systems running Solaris 10 can now boot from ZFS and can use ZFS as their root file system. Solaris 10 5/09 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. Solaris 10 5/09 also includes support for the latest systems from Sun and other vendors, such as those based on the Intel ® Xeon® Processor 7400 Series.
For more information about Solaris ZFS, please visit the ZFS Learning Center and read the ZFS FAQs.
Sun and Intel, as part of a strategic alliance, are now enabling the Solaris OS to unleash the power and capabilities of the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series. As a result, the combination of the Solaris OS and the new Intel Xeon-based systems delivers the highest x64 performance, energy efficiency, and reliability available anywhere.
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What's unique about the Solaris OS in comparison to other operating systems?
Solaris 10, released in early 2005, includes many innovative features. Some of the highest regarded include: ZFS, Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace), Solaris Containers, Predictive Self Healing, Solaris Trusted Extensions, and Logical Domains (LDoms). The unique features of the Solaris OS are designed to deliver breakthrough enterprise functionality as well as flexibility in a wide range of business environments. Solaris advantages are not just on the technical side; it also provides operational benefits to businesses: unique among operating system vendors, Sun protects your IT investments by guaranteeing that existing Solaris applications will run unmodified on Solaris 10, and provides a support life cycle oriented toward deployment longevity.
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