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.

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 :)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Solaris 10 for x86 was released in 2005. Solaris 10 features include: an improved TCP/IP stack ("Fire Engine"), "Solaris Zones" (partitioning software that's sort of like an enhanced chroot jail--one kernel, many OS instances), "ZFS" Dynamic File System, (mirroring, volume management, performance, scalability, and reliability improvements) "FMA/Greenline" with self-healing features and fault management, NFS v4, Gnome 2, DTrace diagnostic software, AMD64 support, and Linux binary support.

Some users have reported poor sound quality and other problems under Solaris 8. It is thought that this is due to the new mixer code in Solaris 8 (there are white papers etc available from Sunsolve). I've heard there are internal bug reports on the mixer code which may or may not be related. I'm now using Solaris 8 and have yet to experience any problems, so I don't know how to fix it! If anyone does find a problem and can supply patches, let me know.

Like XMMS, the Solaris plugin is distributed under the GNU Public License. I don't really have much choice in this as a lot of the code was ripped off from, er, based on the original OSS code from XMMS.