Solaris

operating system Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s version of the

Unix operating system. As well as the core operating

system, Solaris inludes networking software, the Java VirtualMachine, the CDE/Desktop that includes an X11-based

windowing environment and graphical user interface.

Sun claim that Solaris is not just an operating system but an

"operating environment".

Solaris 1.x was a retroactive (marketing?) name for SunOS

4.1.x (where x@#=1).

Solaris 2.x (which is the first version most people call

"Solaris") includes SunOS5.x, which is an SVR4-derived Unix,

OpenWindows 3.x, and tooltalk.

Version 2.7 ("Solaris 7") was around in 1999-03-02. Version

2.8 was released in June 2000. Current version: 9, as of

2002-07-15.

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