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SunOS Solaris 8.0
Mohammed Sylla
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Introduction

• Sun Microsystems, Inc., maker of the UNIX
  operating system Solaris, was founded in 1982 by
  current CEO Scott McNelley and two other friends.
  
• The company, which worth 13 Billions today, is
  based in Mountain view, California.
• Other good products from Sun are
• The universal JAVA language
• ultraSPARC systems, a RISC machine.

UNIX Overview
Solaris 8.0
versus WIN 2000
versus other UNIXs
Conclusion
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An Overview of UNIX

• UNIX was written using the C language by ATT
  Bell Lab in 1969.
• UNIX is a multitasking, multi-user Operating
  System (OS) widely used to run workstations, Web
  and/or File servers on x86, RISC and mainframes.
• The main components of a UNIX OS
• a kernel, the core of UNIX.
• File systems
• Shells, the command line interfaces
• X windows, the GUI interface

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An Overview of UNIX

• Since 1970, commercial UNIX Operating Systems
  have been available.
• Currently these 5 versions are the most
  established
• SunOS Solaris
• IBM AIX
• HP UNIX
• Tru64 UNIX
• UnixWare 7

Tonight, well see one the most powerful UNIX
system Solaris 8.0, the latest UNIX OS from Sun.
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Solaris 8.0, the latest SunOS

• Solaris 8.0 comes with SunOS, a UNIX operating
  system, and several windowing systems
  (OpenWindows, CDE, GNOME Desktop, KDE, etc..).
• It supports
• multithreading computing
• Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP)
• Centralized network administration
• A powerful emulator to run Windows applications
• TCP/IP, NFS, and other network protocols.

For decades, Sun has proclaimed that the network
is the computer. GARTNER, CNET.COM
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Key Features of Solaris 8.0

• Live Upgrade
• While Solaris 8.0 is running in full load, a
  new kernel, the heart of the UNIX OS, can be
  built and put in use without the need to reboot
  the system.
• IP multi-patching
• New network interface cards can be installed and
  put in use while Solaris 8.0 is up and running.
• The system will automatically switch to a
  different network/internet connection if the
  current one goes down.

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Why Choose Solaris 8.0

• Lower downtime (than any other x86 OS)
• With Solaris 8.0, Sun has introduced a System
  management tool called Dynamic Reconfiguration
  (DR), the first of its kind.
• With DR, any hardware components (CPU, hard
  drives, Memory, Video/Sound card, SCSI devices,
  etc ) can be replaced/upgraded and there is no
  need to shutdown and/or reboot the system.
• Automatic System recovery
• When an hardware component fails, the system will
  automatically detect this problem. Then it will
  reboot itself and take the appropriate action
  reinstall/disable the failing devices.

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Why Choose Solaris 8.0

• Reduced cost of ownership
• Solaris 8.0 is free for home use and work on
  computers with capacity of 8 or fewer CPUs.
• Solaris 8.0 offers data-center availability,
  reliability and easy service at a fraction of the
  cost of mainframe computers.
• Universal Operating environment
• Solaris 8.0 can support concurrent multiple
  language environment up to 37 languages.

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Connectivity to the World

• iPlanet to access securely all your network
  resources (allows 50 millions entries/server)
• Suns PC NetLink lets you access all native
  windows NT services (printing, directories/files).
  
• It also makes Solaris 8.0 appears like a
  Window OS on the Window network.
• Supports PDA and Cellular Phone.
• supports XML and Java 2.

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Solaris 8.0 HW Requirements

• Please, check that your HW components are on
  Suns HCL (Hardware Compatibility List).
• Same Requirement as your basic Window OS
• 64 MB of RAM
• At least 400 MB Hard Drive space
• Diskette and CD-ROM Drives
• Compatible Video and Sound Cards

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What comes with Solaris 8.0?

• GNOME Desktop (GNU Network Objet Environment)
• Oracle 8i, the most powerful database manager.
• Star office, a nice German productivity package.
• Forte Software for JAVA development.
• iPlanet, a powerful directory service software.
• A migration work bench (to migrate from MS SQL on
  Window NT to Oracle 8i on Solaris 8.0)
• Solaris Software companion CD.

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Limitations of Solaris 8.0

• Like any UNIX OS, the installation of Solaris is
  not trivial.
• It does not support as many Hardware devices as
  Microsoft Windows NT or Windows 2000.
• Like any UNIX OS, Solaris 8.0 has a steep
  learning curve.

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Solaris 8.0 versus Windows 2000

• Only Windows 2000 has these features
• Roaming User profiles
• Enterprise class Tape Backup system
• Supports more Hardware devices
• Only Solaris 8.0 has these features
• Remote system booting
• Automatic system Recovery when a device fails.
• Dynamic reconfiguration while the System is up.
• Runs on SPARC / ultraSPARC machine.
• Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit computing.

Which one has the best value (price/performance)?
You make the call
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Solaris 8.0 in the UNIX arena

• Last January, the 2001 UNIX Function Review
  compared todays most powerful UNIX OS
• Solaris 8.0
• HP UNIX IIi
• IBM AIX 4.3.3.
• Tru64 UNIX 5-1
• UNIX WARE 7.1.1.
• The comparison criteria were as follows
• Scalability
• Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS)
• System Management
• Internet web service
• Directory and Security Services

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Results of the Review...

• Solaris 8.0 lead in both RAS and
  Directory/Security Service and came very strong
  in Internet web service.
• HP UNIX and Tru64 UNIX shared the lead in
  system management.
• Tru64 UNIX also led in Scalability.
• IBM AIX lead in Internet web service.
• HP UNIX finished at least 2nd in all categories.

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Solaris 8.0 came up first ...

• The Best UNIX OS in 2001

• 2. HP UNIX IIi and Tru64 UNIX 5-1
• 4. AIX 4-3.3.
• 5. UnixWare 7.1.1.

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Power of UNIX scripts

• nice -19 find /tmp -user johns -mtime 30 -print
  grep TRN xargs -i -t rm
• nohup find / -name "" -print cpio -ocBv -O
  /dev/st5 2gt/tmp/backup.err 1gt/tmp/backup.out
• cat text_file tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' pr -d -l 50
  -n -h "This is only a
  test" copylaser

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Conclusion

• Being from the UNIX family, Solaris 8.0 is very
  powerful, reliable, scalable and arguably the
  most secure out there.
• Very much connected to the World Wide Web.
• Once again, Sun Microsystems is coming up with
  these new innovations
• Dynamic Reconfiguration to replace just about any
  devices (including CPUs, Memory, ) while the
  Solaris 8.0 is running and there is no need to
  reboot.
• Automatic System recovery that allows Solaris
  8.0 to auto-configure itself.
• No doubt, Suns Solaris will be in command for
  long.

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Bibliography

• Solaris Operating Environments (http//www.sun.com
  /software/solaris/ )
• Solaris Downloads ( http//www.sun.com/software/so
  laris/downloads.html )
• Solaris Package Descriptions http//www.sun.com/so
  ftware/solaris/binaries/package.html
• Sun Solaris UNIX commands and scripts
  http//www.harmanresearch.com/solaris/
• Comparing Sun Solaris 8 and Windows 2000 Server
  http//www.microsoft.com/windows2000/guide/server/
  compare/solaris.asp
• A free Punch at Microsoft http//www.zdnet.com/int
  week/stories/news/0,4164,2428391,00.html
• Solaris Vulnerabilities http//www.zdnet.com/intwe
  ek/stories/news/0,4164,2428391,00.html
• Useful Tools for Sun workstations and Solaris
  http//www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-stuff.html
• Solaris Tips (http//www.pcnetcom.net/solaris.htm)

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