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Sun Solaris With Ease?
Sun Microsystems has gone to great lengths in recent years to make its Solaris operating system more open by going open source. But “open” doesn’t always mean “easy.”
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Sun runs virtual Linux inside Solaris Containers
When Solaris Containers for Linux Applications is released into the source code with Update 4 on Aug. 27, Sun customers will be able to run unmodified Linux binaries made for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS.
Formerly called BrandZ, Solaris Containers for Linux Applications is an upgrade to the Containers operating system virtualization technology already included in Solaris 10. The update will be released at no charge to existing Solaris customers.
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Implementing Sun Solaris on IBM BladeCenter Servers
This IBM Redpaper describes how to install Solaris on supported BladeCenter servers, either natively or with the use of a Solaris Installation Server. It describes how to incorporate the latest patches to Solaris from Sun, plus updated drivers for the Ethernet and RAID devices in the blade servers. It explains how to implement Fibre Channel storage and how to configure boot from SAN. It also shows how to integrate blade servers running Solaris into an IBM Director or SNMP-based management infrastructure.This paper is aimed at IBM customers who are already familiar with the use of Solaris on platforms other than the IBM BladeCenter solution.
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Solaris Now Runs on Intel Architecture Rack and Blade Servers
“Two of our Intel platforms are now certified to run Sun Solaris 10,” says Whitfield, “which is the version of Solaris deployed in carrier-grade networks. These are the first Intel carrier-grade server products that will support both Solaris OS and Linux. We already support several different ‘flavors’ of Linux, and now we’ll also be supporting Solaris on our ‘Woodcrest’ processor-based products.”
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Sun To Split Solaris Distribution Model
The company will use Project Indiana to target the Linux developer community and its enterprise customers with frequent community-oriented releases of the operating system.
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Sun OpenSolaris to become more ‘Linux-like’
Analysts familiar with Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Project Indiana say that as early as this week the company could reveal plans to revamp the OpenSolaris operating system by incorporating key pieces of Linux software.
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Sun to Make Solaris More Linux Like
In an effort to spur adoption of Solaris, Sun Microsystems has begun a project code-named Indiana to try to give its operating system some of Linux’s success.
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