Author: BadcoffeeEmail: blog.oliver@gmail.com2004年 September
Original: http://blog.9cbs.net/yayong copyright: When reprint, please be sure to indicate the original source of the article, the author information and this statement first, clarify Solaris and Sun OS:
Solaris is what - SoE - Solaris Operating Environment It consists of 3 main components: 1. SUNOS - System Kernel (The 5.x Thing) 2.Windowing - Desktop Environment CDE DEFAULT, GNOME, and JDS 3.Open Network Computing (ONC ) - NFS (V3 & V4), NIS / NIS , RPC / XDR
Category by hardware platform:
1. For SPARC - Sun SPARC CPU's workstation and server installation version, on SPARC, Solaris is a real 64-bit operating system, some old SPARC CPUs are 32-bit, so some old machines can also Switch to 32-bit mode.
2. for x86 - All types of X86 IA32 architecture machines (Intel / AMD CPU) can be installed, pure 32-bit operating system
3. FOR AMD64 - Sun V20Z V60Z has the most AMD's Opteron 64-bit CPU, I believe you will have Solaris that supports AMD 64-bit
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Category according to the version number:
1. Main version:
The current version is 9. Domestic 8 is more common, Solaris 10 will release 7 previous Solaris naming in early 2004 is in the form of 2.x
2. UPDATE version:
Every time, Sun will add the latest bug fix and new enhancements to the official version, called Update version The latest Update version should be Solaris 9 UPDATE 7
3. EXPRESS version:
Every month, Sun will release the new version of the development in the Express version, for you to try and test.
For example, the new version of Express for Solaris 8/04 is launched on August 4, 2004. It is the latest version of the Solaris 10 developed.
To download the trial:
Http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/get.html