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Why do some people like Solaris2?

April 26, 2017people solaris2

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Why do some people like Solaris2?

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There are improvements in Solaris 2.x. 1) OpenWindows 3.3+ (in Solaris 2.3+). Includes X11R5 and Display PostScript. 2) Motif & CDE. 3) ANSI-C and POSIX development environment. 4) POSIX threads (2.5) 5) POSIX and X/OPEN command environment 6) Multi-threaded kernel and real threads. 7) True multi-processing. 8) Goodies: vold, admintool and Wabi. 9) Easy patch installation/administration through installpatch. 10) All software in easy to manage “packages”. 11) Power management software. 12) Access control lists 13) NFS Version 3 and NFS over TCP (Solaris 2.5+). 14) A better automounter, autofs (not more /tmp_mnt and symlinks). 15) Jumpstart/autoinstall. 16) Better MP support. 17) Faster networking (ATM, fastethernet).