Solaris(tm) is Sun's name for their UNIX-based user environment, including the UNIX(tm) operating system, window system (X11-based), and other stuff too. Solaris 1.x is a retroactive (marketing?) name for SunOS 4.1.x (x>=1), a version of UNIX that is BSD-like with some SVR4 features, along with OpenWindows 3.0. Solaris 2.x (which is what most everybody means by "Solaris") includes SunOS 5.x, which is an SVR4-derived UNIX, along with OpenWindows 3.x, tooltalk, and other stuff.

Solaris indeed has never been translated directly into English and Stanislaw Lem was dissatisfied with the current translation. Whether this state of affairs will change remains an open question. The following quote from a letter from the Managing Director of the Publishing House Faber and Faber serves as an explanation: "With regard to Solaris, I am afraid that we would not currently be willing either to publish a new translation or to license one."

If you just want to use freefonts or sharefonts, you can copy these files into the appropriate directory (such as /usr/openwin/lib/fonts/freefonts/ or /usr/openwin/lib/fonts/sharefonts/), or merge them with the appropriate fonts.dir and fonts.scale files if you mixed in freefonts and sharefonts with existing fonts: The 'fontadmin' tool is a openwin demo program and sometimes does not exist. To properly add fonts the finagled directory requires fonts.dir, fonts.scale files to exist.

Solaris (2.5 and up) has its own version of X in /usr/openwin, its own version of make in /usr/ccs/bin/make, and its own compiler (to be purchased separately) which, if you have it, is available in /opt/SUNWspro/bin. Solaris does not provide the XPM library, which is required for the Xaw client; it doesn't provide any of the stuff required for imlib, gdk and gtk, either, which is required to build the GTK+ client.

On Solaris, FreeBSD, and some other systems, the default make isn't GNU make. In order to compile with such a make you must either configure --disable-cvs-deps --disable-nls in order to disable the GNU make specific parts of the Makefile.

Another program may have turned off the speaker or headphones or whatever interface to which you're listening. Obviously, tkbiff cannot guess which one that might be, so it assumes you are controlling that yourself. To check the status of where sound is going, run audiocontrol and then, for example, if you want sound to come out of the speakers, click on Speaker.

Yes. DenyHosts has been reported to work with Solaris. However, since Solaris uses a pam_afs format for logging messages, you will need to add this line to your configuration file (typically, denyhosts.cfg ).

to the configure command line? Solaris puts the X11 includes and libraries in an unusual place and the above lets synergy find them.

The Software Express Program for Solaris allows customers to get the latest features and technologies as they are integrated into the Solaris Operating System for both the SPARC and x86 platform. This program delivers the very latest work-in-progress code base from our Sun Development team in monthly intervals. Each release will be a full build containing the very latest features and technologies integrated into the software at the end of each development cycle.

On things like Solaris, where there's no random number device, you may or may not be able to get GPG running. If you have managed to get it working, especially if you're using egd, please let me know. Better still, if you have a spare Sparc box kicking around, why not send it to me so I can develop first hand :)

Mr. Lem has not seen the Soderbergh movie yet. His opinion about his book "Solaris" can be found in The Solaris Station. If you would like to share your opinion about Lem's works (or the Solaris remake) with other Internauts please do so in the Forum section. Due to the number of e-mails we receive for some time we have to discontinue publishing your letters (although we read all of them carefully). All important questions shall be answered in the above FAQ section.

SunOS refers to the actual operating system that underlies the Solaris OE (operating environment). SunOS is often used to refer to the old SunOS 4.x, a BSD-like operating system with some SVR4 features and OpenWindows. Solaris is typically used to refer to SunOS 5.x releases of the operating system and environment from Sun Microsystems. The version of Solaris can be derived from the SunOS 5.x designation by dropping the leading 5. e.g., Solaris 7 is SunOS 5.7.

By default, Solaris doesn't allow packages to be upgraded. However, you can change this by editing the file /var/sadm/install/admin/default and changing the instance= line to instance=overwrite. An upgrade can then be performed by simply installing the new Webmin .pkg file. By default, when a user composed email the From field contains username@systemhostname.

Sun's Solaris 9 certification helps to validate the knowledge and skills the IT Professional needs to take full advantage of the features and functionality of the Solaris 9 Operating System. By fully utilizing functionality, the IT Professional can gain competitive advantage by delivering superior service levels, scalability and reliablity to their customers. Several of the previous objectives have been strengthened (so you can expect more questions and more detailed questions on them).

PostgreSQL for Solaris is the open source database PostgreSQL compiled and made available starting with the Solaris 10 6/06 release.

you are familar with the ITS architecture, ITS has two components WGate and Agate. As of release 4.6D C4 WGate part of ITS was available on ITS. In the next very few days WGate on solaris for ITS 6.10 will be available.

CPU minf mjf xcal  intr ithr  csw icsw migr smtx  srw syscl  usr sys  wt idl Step 3. psrset -b 1 2325 // where 1 is the process-set ID, and 2325 is the process (e.g partition) ID. Note: Please use 'man psrset' to learn more about various other interesting options like disabling interrupts for a particular set of CPUs.

The Sun Blue Print team develops and tests solutions for many facets of security, including security high-end systems. Look for the Solaris Security Toolkit (aka "JASS"). Special products, such as Clustering software, E10K SSPs, and others, need tailored security work. The blueprints program provides it. SANS security solutions for Solaris are only suitable for low-end systems and are known to break Sun's high end servers.

BX 6.1: Yes, just cut and paste the appropriate key into the key request dialog box as BX starts on the platform. Alternatively, if your startup file detects which system type you are using, just set the environment variable above to the appropriate location for that system. EPak and ViewKit share the same evaluation key on both Linux and UNIX, so you can just set it once. BX 6.0: If you need to evaluate both a UNIX and Linux version of BX PRO with BX 6.

GIMP is interacting in such a way with your system that it thinks you have XIM extensions when you don't. Run the configure script again, with the '--disable-xim' option, and recompile.

Solaris ZFS is a next generation general purpose file system available in Solaris 10. It is designed to meet the modern needs of a general-purpose, host-based file system. Solaris ZFS is a next generation file system that is designed, over time, to replace UFS along with the need for separate volume management software.

A Solaris Zone is a virtual environment that has security and application fault containment, and its own name space that can be tailored to the application that will run in it. It is possible to give a Solaris Zone its own node name, IP address(es), users, groups, disk space, network ports, name server, and so on.

No. AAA Version 1.7 was the last version of AAA that ran on UNIX workstations. There are no plans to port AAA back to the workstations. AAA runs under Windows on PC and under window emulators on workstations such as SoftWindows or VirtualPC.

Adobe Reader is currently available on the following flavors of Unix: Linux (8.1.1), AIX (7.0.9), HP-UX PA-RISC (7.0.9) and Sparc Solaris (8.1.1). There is currently no version available for Solaris x86 platform. Adobe shall let the user community know in case there is a plan to support Solaris x86 in a future release. On starting acroread, a dialog box pops up "Unable to find the HTML rendering library (libgtkembedmoz)." This happens if acroread was unable to find libgtkembedmoz.

Some versions of the GTK+ library from www.sunfreeware.org appear to be buggy, causing Wireshark to drop core with a Bus Error. Un-install those packages, and try getting the 1.2.10 version from that site, or the version from The Written Word, or the version from Sun's GNOME distribution, or the version from the supplemental software CD that comes with the Solaris media kit, or build it from source from the GTK Web site. Update the GLib library to the 1.2.

On SunOS the maximum partition size is 2 GB and the maximum number of partitions is 7 so the largest RAID set is 14 GB. However, in reality, if the customer uses 4 GB drives, then the maximum will be 3x4GB = 12GB. On Solaris, the maximum number of partitions is still 7. The largest disk size Z Microsystems currently sells is 72 GB so the largest RAID set is 432 GB (6x72S GB) plus 1 drive for parity RAID 4 or RAID 5.