Talk:Solaris (operating system)/Archive 1

message: User:Merphant added, over a year ago:
: Solaris has a reputation for being extremely stable and powerful.
That sounds too subjective to me, at least on its own. It's also known to be slow and inherently buggy, at least in some respects, but such a clause isn't on the page (rightfully). I think these kinds of generalizations should be avoided. Can I remove this? --Shallot 18:59, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subjective statement 

message: Since I am new to wiki, I would like to present some features or uses that This page may like to note.. Can anyone help me find the appropriate place to pop these in?
* Jumpstart and Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit (JET) framework
* JASS - Security toolkit
* 64-Bit SPARC architecture and Solaris - one of the first to use.
-- SusanRoy 05:30, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Features/Addons for possible discussion 

message: There's a buttload of stuff in Solaris 10 that isn't in OpenSolaris - they're not yet the same thing at all. (I think OpenSolaris only just got X11.) Solaris 10 is the good old proprietary license as usual (several pages of fine print) and Open Solaris is CDDL. Sun appears to be serious about OpenSolaris and getting the kernel developers and the users interacting as a community. In the meantime, however, Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris are very different things - David Gerard 17:57, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Solaris vs OpenSolaris

message: I suggest the title should be changed to Solaris Operating System. Either that or the opening phrase changed back to Solaris Operating Environment. The Sun page uses O/System. Nurg 23:17, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sun did until recently, officially call Solaris the "Solaris Operating Environment". There are still plenty instances of it on the Sun website - see, for example, the Solaris 9 Reference Guide. I suggest we at least keep a redirect with that title and refrain from revisionism when discussing Solaris in a historical context. Letdorf 17:07, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed.  Sorry for not mentioning that my understanding was that the software would automatically create a "Solaris Operating Environment" redirect page, which would take care of not losing the older name.  If for some reason it doesn't, I'll create it.--NapoliRoma 20:33, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article title - O/Environment or O/System?

message: :Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
:Support Mipadi 22:57, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Support --Dhartung | Talk 07:06, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: Since I am new to wiki, I would like to present some features or uses that This page may like to note.. Can anyone help me find the appropriate place to pop these in?
* Jumpstart and Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit (JET) framework
* JASS - Security toolkit
* 64-Bit SPARC architecture and Solaris - one of the first to use.
-- SusanRoy 05:30, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Features/Addons for possible discussion 

message: I've started an article on Doors (computing), and added a paragraph about Sun's <ahem> unique approach to extended file attributes at Extended file attributes#Solaris. I'd welcome comments and/or corrections. (I've added a link to Extended file attributes#Solaris in the Solaris 9 row of the Versions table.) Cheers, CWC(talk) 01:23, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please check my work 

message: For myself and anyone else trying to track edits not related to That Website, here's a list of all such edits since 6 September.
When (UTC)              	Who          	Diff
10:41, 8 September 2006 	"CWC"        	Add single-sentence listing  notable features; ...
19:28, 10 September 2006	NapoliRoma   	Added ref for Linux binary support; reformatted other refs; copyedit
19:28, 14 September 2006	NapoliRoma   	Solaris 7 and 8 end-of-support dates etc
03:43, 17 September 2006	201.80.42.110	source_model in infobox
23:47, 22 September 2006	Byte me      	Heading style fix to "Desktop environments"
00:32, 29 September 2006	Mike92591    	Link to "x86-64" instead of "AMD64" & "EMT64"
14:23, 29 September 2006	Letdorf      	Avoid link redirect *and* obsolete terminology
Cheers, CWC(talk) 03:53, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Filtered Edit History 

message: There's currently a  tag on the following sentence:
While SunOS 4.1.x micro releases were retroactively named Solaris 1 by Sun, the name Solaris is almost exclusively used to refer to SVR4-derived SunOS 5.0 and later.
I can't picture there being any definitive source to back this up -- the only thing I could think of is a Google search, which turns up 250,000 of "Solaris 1" hits compared to 6 million "SunOS" hits.  Kind of crude, a bit flawed... and also smells like original research.
Or would http://kb.iu.edu/data/agjq.html suffice?  "The term "Solaris" typically refers to the SVR4 releases (SunOS version 5 and higher, and Solaris version 2 and higher) exclusively."  I'm sure there are a bunch of similar quotes out there, but none of them feels particularly authoritative.
--NapoliRoma 22:03, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Citation needed" for SunOS vs. Solaris