Solaris

An UNIX like operating system developed by Sun Microsystems to replace their SunOS system, it was renamed Oracle Solaris in 2010 after Oracle took over Sun. Primarily developed on Sun's own SPARC architecture but ports also exist for other architectures. Fujitsu uses Solaris on their SPARC based mini and mainframe computer systems and holds out their own variant.

Notably Solaris is one of the few UNIX like systems that comply with the Single Unix Specification alongside AIX and HP-UX

Versions

SPARC only

Solaris 1.1 - SunOS 4.1.3 and OpenWindows 3
Solaris 1.1.1
Solaris 1.1.2
Jun 1992: Solaris 2.0 - SVR4-based SunOS 5.0
Dec 1992: Solaris 2.1 - SunOS 5.1
May 1993: Solaris 2.2 - SunOS 5.2
Nov 1993: Solaris 2.3 - SunOS 5.3 and OpenWindows 3.3

SPARC and x86

Nov 1994: Solaris 2.4 - SunOS 5.4 with OSF/Motif runtime
Nov 1995: Solaris 2.5 - SunOS 5.5 with CDE
May 1996: Solaris 2.5.1 - also for PowerPC
Jul 1997: Solaris 2.6 - SunOS 5.6
Nov 1998: Solaris 7 - SunOS 5.7
Feb 2000: Solaris 8 - SunOS 5.8
May 2002: Solaris 9 - SunOS 5.9, released in 2003 for x86
Jan 2005: Solaris 10 - SunOS 5.10
Nov 2011: Oracle Solaris 11 - SunOS 5.11
Oct 2012: Oracle Solaris 11.1
Apr 2014: Oracle Solaris 11.2
Oct 2015: Oracle Solaris 11.3

Current version is Oracle Solaris 11.3 (January 2016)

Links

Oracle's Solaris homepage

Publisher

Sun Microsystems
Oracle (post 2010)