what solaris 10 use for ?
this might sound stupid. but i need to ask to clarify few knowledge answer from experts
well i downloaded sol10 works fine , now i can create users can mount my cd can play songs , can surf.
i have 0% of real work experience on solars workstation. i am dying to work in real environment.after too may rejection for the job. i finally decided to get a sol10 workstation and work on it.
i am playing with it now works fine
but in real environment what does it has.
for example
window2003 server ( make sense to me which stores users data. can create users who connects to this server and use application or database so on)
in the same way what application can i install on solaris ( not which are free and are on the Google )
i need real application which are used in the work environment. so that i can install and practice on it
if you ask me about windows i can tell whole day and night about the application we can install on it and how to communicate with each other and what can and cant do with it
well know with solaris i am doing nothing . and cant even say any thing what i can do with it
i can update solaris
i can remote login in solaris box (putty)
i can share a user folder and can access from different workstation
now i am sick of it doing the same thing
i would like to know each and every application which runs on solaris and which all companies use them to their requirement
i want to practice the real life tasks.....
what application runs on sol platform how they interact
notes and links to that application
apart from database like oracle . what else solaris workstation use for
What kind of companies use sol and what they use solaris for
# 1
U have lot of questions in ur mind , regarding Solaris n its job role
Solaris has now become world's most advanced operating system , specially in server class environments bcoz of its rock solid stability & accuracy etc.. , windows environment is very popular in small to medium enterprises , but as far as the matter of big enterprises concern like datacenters , telecoms - in those resource availability is a must - since solaris is having a foundation of BSD environment therfore regarding the availability of resources it is extreme prompt n 99% virus free architecture . Solaris is quiet popular in "web servers " , Database servers , IDS , File/Print Servers , Engineering Application Development etc .
# 2
> availability is a must - since solaris is having a> foundation of BSD environment therfore regarding theSunOS was BSD based,Solaris is Sys V based.alan
# 3
So what happened to SunOS and where it was used ?.
> > availability is a must - since solaris is having a
> > foundation of BSD environment therfore regarding
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> SunOS was BSD based,
> Solaris is Sys V based.
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> alan
# 4
Actually what he means is that SunOS 4.x was based on BSD, whereas SunOS 5.x is based in SVR4. However there has been 10 releases since the first SunOS 5.x release, so i think that you can say that the limit has sort of faded.
Solaris is a marketing name for a version of SunOS bundled with some kind of window system.
The SunOS 4.x was more of a workstation OS, it didn't really scale that well over multiple processors, and had a less dynamic kernel, among other things. Apart from that it was used quite much to the same thing as the SunOS 5.x that replaced it.
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# 5
For whatever reason that I can't remember, Sun switched from BSD to Sys 5. A lot of other companies are involved with Sys 5, not just Sun.
Any Sys 5 system should share a common set of characteristics. You'd have to grab a book on Sys 5 to know what those are as I haven't the foggiest what the differences between Sys 5 and BSD are anymore.
SunOS, the BSD based version, was abandoned many years ago in favor of Sys 5 Solaris.
alan
# 6
Just for everone's info. Here is a cool diagram showing the Unix family tree. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Image:Unix_history-simple.pngIt is a large picture be sure to expand it
# 7
For me Solaris is dictated because the application was written specifically for it. It is very stable. I have lots of Sun hardware, but what I am most proud of are my E250 servers. Why you ask? Because they are a testimony of how solid the SPARC platform and Solaris are. My servers are 8 yrs old. Never have I had to reboot them. They run solid. However just recently I lost a SCSI drive and must replace it. What is so funny is I don't have a lot of experience maintaining the hardware because it always works. I have to figure out how to rebuild/replace that SCSI disk; it is part of a mirror.
Anyway if you want to know what applications run on Solaris for free check out. I guess these are really just tools.
http://www.sunfreeware.com/
To answer you question the needs of the business dictate application, that dictates OS.
To be honest you wont be able to gain experience maintaining some application on Solaris unless you can create the environment. That doesn't mean you can't learn administration of Solaris networks. Perhaps you want to get Solaris 10 certified, then find a job that requires a junior Solaris admin and work your way up. You need to learn shell scripting and you can do that at home.
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# 8
thanks very much for your info
for some reason i tried to get into this forum. but it alwasys said my password is rong and didnt even send email with the password
after that i forgot about it
today i try to check it out and it worked
thanks very much
i will be asking some Techinical question now. with some real envirnment.
know i have ultra sparc 80 i am working on it
got too many problems understanding raid using metadb thing
i am doing study on it then iwill come up with this question
see you shortly
# 9
I have an Ultra 80 also, very rugged, but EOL and not supported. I can't afford new Sun equipment. I'm trying to qualify for a Try and Buy Ultra 20 Opteron workstation, but Sun is being slow to get back to me.
Solaris is robust, scalable, stable, generally secure, and has a good deal of commercial backing in the server area. It runs most open-source software and has some cool features like DTrace, SMF, Zones, and ZFS in the generally available product. The OS is free, and support is half of what it is for Red Hat and Novell's Linux distributions. UNIX is generally less demanding on the hardware and has a longer life without being penetrated. It also handles more load on less hardware, and has far less problems with most software changes. Sun also offers simplified patch management through Sun Update Connection which is free for security and general bug fixes on both architectures.
UNIX in the modern sense is a broad term, there are 50 million Mac OS X users with a FreeBSD userland at their fingertips, there have been 5 million Solaris downloads since it was released for free, and my estimate over 40 million machines running Solaris, mainly servers though. Many companies are using VMware on Linux, to reduce costs and many companies are providing low-level critical services like DNS and packet filtering with the BSD's. These days, FreeBSD has good Symmetric Multiprocessing efficiency, as it has corrected the traditional problems with the Big Kernel Lock, and has a threading model based on Solaris'. When Sun changed to SVR5 in 1992, it was partly a business deal with AT&T. How else do you think Sun can get away with releasing REAL intellectual UNIX source code. It probably cost them 100 yachts worth of gold bars to pay them off.
I have two disks in my Ultra 80, so I am unfamiliar with RAID management, so I can't help with ZFS or RAID on SPARC. I am familiar with hardware RAID, Linux LVM and Software RAID, and some FreeBSD volume management on x86 hardware though.
I'm undergoing Sun Certified System Administrator training for x86 platforms currently, if you have any questions for either platforms you can find my e-mail at http://www.itprodigy.com, I am a consultant for essentially any modern operating system and most popular software stacks and services.
