Sun Microsystems has fulfilled its pledge to make its newest version of the Solaris operating system available for free. On Monday evening, the server and software company began offering Solaris 10 as ...

Solaris 10 is at risk of a zero-day exploit, due to security bugs in its telnet service, Sun Microsystems warned Tuesday. The "highly critical" vulnerabilities could enable attackers to gain ...

SAN JOSE — While Sun Microsystems Inc. officially launched Solaris 10 here last week, the future prospects of the operating system—and perhaps of Sun itself—were being judged many miles away by early ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems Inc. officials offered a sneak peek into its Solaris operating system plans, touting incremental improvements in areas such as resource management that are expected to ...

"When Solaris 10 goes GA [general availability], it will represent the most significant release by Sun of any kindhardware or softwarein 10 years," said Marc Maselli, president of Back Bay ...

Sun CEO Scott McNealy unleashed the first small piece of Solaris 10 code, the DTrace utility, to be open-sourced, promising that the bulk of Solaris 10 will be available under Sun's recently approved ...

I'm a Windows sysadmin. After avoiding anything Unix for years, I need to learn Solaris rather quickly. I'm not in charge of any Solaris boxes; I just need to speak intelligently with Solaris admins.

In doing some reporting for Sun’s Solaris 10 announcement Monday, I asked some analysts for their thoughts on Sun’s overall Solaris vs. Linux strategy and if the Sun-Microsoft deal, signed earlier ...

I've been looking at the Oracle/Sun Solaris site trying to figure out how 'free' Solaris is for personal, home use. I see the 90 day evaluation stuff, but since IANAL, I'm confused as to who that ...

As it readies Solaris 10, Sun develops an open-source project modeled on Apple's Darwin and Red Hat's Fedora. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He ...

Sun will formally launch the next major release of its flagship Solaris operating system at a press event Nov. 15 at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif., company officials confirmed ...

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