well there my friends you all should know first of all dear sweet souls of the universe .................................................................................................................................................... peace and love!!!!!!!!!!!! .......................................ok well what you guys should know is that.......... i live in Solaris !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! solaris is near polaris which in fact is a longitude of the earth , in itself the whole universe........................... much like the sun..... solaris holds less heatness evacuated in itself, almost like a Supernova, but infact ,... Solaris is a star that lasts forever, existing for eternity, a shinning enlightenment . . that is Solaris, so there you go a quick explination of Solaris because i know no one will bother read more then a few sentences........... hmmmmmmmmm if not i can go on and on and on about Solaris because i came from there...
Improved answerHey! that's going to confuse the asker! Solaris is an operating system as well, and that was what the asker was asking. :( Solaris is a Unix variant from Sun Microsystems. It runs on their proprietary SparcStations with their SPARC processors as well as typical AMD/Intel processors.Solaris is for engineering, programming, graphics/CAD, server applications, and many more advanced computing tasks.
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These days Solaris has pretty much the same features as other operating systems. Recently it was released to other chipsets besides SPARC chips as well. Solaris is designed as a rock solid Operating System that is very scalable and stable. This, of course, is what most other vendors of Unix will also say ...
Janice Winsor has written: 'Solaris 8 system administrators's reference' -- subject(s): Electronic data processing, Management, Solaris (Computer file), Systems software 'Jumping JavaScript' -- subject(s): Client/server computing, JavaScript (Computer program language), Netscape 'Solaris 9 Operating Environment Reference' -- subject(s): Operating systems (Computers), Solaris (Computer file) 'Solaris management console tools' -- subject(s): Operating systems (Computers), Solaris (Computer file)
Windows XP is a proprietary operating system from Microsoft while Solaris is a highly scalable UNIX operating system from Sun Microsystems. Solaris runs on SPARC-based and x86-based hardware. Although Solaris was originally developed as proprietary software most of it is now open source and can be downloaded for free.
Windows, Solaris, Linux, & Apple OSX...
Windows, Linux, Mac OSX are currently the three most popular computer operating systems. Other operating systems are Solaris, BeOS, Google Chromium os, and many more.
I know that the NASA use Sun Solaris, RedHat and OS X Operating system.big ones
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There are a number of free operating systems for personal computers. They include Linux, NetBSD, GNU, Open Solaris, Darwin, Free DOS, AROS, eCOS and Haiku.
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Applications require the common services provided by operating systems in order to interact with the hardware.
the operating system provides connectivity between software and the hardware. the examples of operating systems are windows,linux,machintosh,solaris
Many operating systems are used on servers, including Linux, Windows Server, Solaris, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X Server.
Several operating systems are capable of functioning in a distributed manner, including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X.