Tell me some of the differences between Solaris and Sun OS?
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Answer / jsdkar
sun OS is BSD based
solaris is used systemV kernel
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Answer / syedrafiq
Solaris consists of
1.Sun OS 5.x operating system:
Manages system resources and schedules system operations.
2.Open Network Computing (ONC+) software:
Provides network services such as NFS,NIS,NIS+
3.GUI desktop environment:
GUI widowing environment that displays login screen and
most of the desktop environment functions
Sun OS software based on BSD unix 4.2
Sun Solaris,HP-UX,IBM-AIX based on SVR4 ---> system V
(AT&T) + BSD release 4( university of california,Berkeley)
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Answer / bharathi
Sun OS is an operating system where as Solaris is an
operating environment for Sun OS.
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Answer / srikanth
sun is kernel release and solaris is operating enviornment
(desktop enviornment)
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Answer / mohammed mukram
SunOS is a Sun Microsystems implementation of the Unix
operating system. Solaris is SunOS packaged with a number of
additional tools and a graphical user interface (GUI)
environment. Since Sun Microsystems did not offer Solaris
until SunOS 4, SunOS and Solaris have different version
conventions (e.g., Solaris 1 includes SunOS 4, while Solaris
2 includes SunOS 5). To further confuse the naming scheme,
Sun now refers to Solaris by just its point release (e.g.,
Solaris 7, 8, or 9 instead of 2.7, 2.8, or 2.9).
Up through version 4.1.x (Solaris 1.x), SunOS was a heavily
BSD-influenced Unix implementation. However, in the late
1980s, Sun entered into a partnership with AT&T, which was
then developing the other major Unix flavor, System V. The
result was System V release 4 (SVR4), which incorporated BSD
as well as SunOS extensions (e.g., NFS). Subsequently, with
its version 5.x (Solaris 2.x) releases, SunOS shifted from
its BSD origins to SVR4.
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Answer / kkk
solaris is the flavour of UNIX.
The OS is developed by Sun Microsystem. this is the exact
differance between the question.
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Answer / phani
Sun OS is Operating System
Solaris is Desktop Enviornment
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Answer / mohammed mukram
both are same.... no difference at all
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