OpenSolaris

have you know about opensolaris? opensolaris is an opensource edition for solaris. Solaris has been known for its stability as an OS (it’s been around since 1980’s). Solaris can use up to 72 processor and support 256 GB of RAM and run on SPARC processor (although now its support intel for opensolaris edition). Solaris has been used in telecommunication industry for mission-critical machine. A machine that cannot go wrong no matter what. That’s why solaris is so popular in many large corporations for its stability.

here is the property of solaris
1. symmetric multiprocessing
2. 64 bit kernel and process address space
3. modular binary kernel
4. multi threaded process execution
5. multi threaded kernel
6. fully pre-emptable kernel
7. support for multi scheduling

the file system that is used is ZFS
Solaris was developed by sun microsystem.
I think I want to study about solaris from now on.

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