Skip to main content

Solaris 9 System Administrator's Evaluation Guide

This guide is designed to help System Administrators evaluate the Solaris 9 Operating Environment (OE).
It includes information about what is new in the Solaris 9 platform, walks through the installation, and a test drive of the environment.
The appendix also includes information about the business advantages of using the Solaris 9 OE as well as an analysis of the Solaris 9 platform compared to the competition.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Traditionally, Unix/Linux/POSIX filenames can be almost any sequence of bytes, and their meaning is unassigned. The only real rules are that "/" is always the directory separator, and that filenames can't contain byte 0 (because this is the terminator). Although this is flexible, this creates many unnecessary problems. In particular, this lack of limitations makes it unnecessarily difficult to write correct programs (enabling many security flaws), makes it impossible to consistently and accurately display filenames, causes portability problems, and confuses users. more ....

Multi-Boot Disk for Machines With AMD Opteron Processors

This article presents step-by-step procedures for loading the Solaris 10 OS on x86 platforms, and one or two 64-bit Linux operating systems, on machines based on 64-bit AMD Opteron processors. Installations were done on generic Opteron-based workstations and confirmed on a Sun Fire V20z server and Sun Java Workstation W1100z and W2100z workstations.