Solaris 11.4 Beta
Oracle has released Solaris 11.4 Open Beta.
Oracle has released Solaris 11.4 Open Beta.
“The Sudden Death and Eternal Life of Solaris” is a blog article by Bryan Cantrill with his thoughts on Oracle’s recent staff terminations.
This tweet by Simon Phipps claims that a large portion of Solaris technical staff were let go – as a “Silent EOL” of the product – in the recent Oracle layoffs on Friday, September 1st.
An article at Phoronix discusses more recent layoffs in Sun/SPARC-related teams at Oracle.
According to this Ars Technicha article, Oracle is officially cancelling any plans for Solaris 12, instead focusing on what they call “Solaris 11.next”, which is expected to be released in late 2018 and last through 2021.
From this blog post comes the news that Solaris will soon be adopting the OpenBSD “pf” firewall / packet filter in Solaris 11.3, and Oracle hopes to make it the default in Solaris 12. I think this is a good thing, as current IPF in Solaris is ancient, and is what “pf” was designed to replace originally in OpenBSD.
In this InfoWorld article, Java founder James Gosling rates Oracle’s handling of Sun’s technologies in the four years since the acquisition.
In short, Java gets a passing grade, while the treatment of the Solaris operating system fails miserably.
This NetworkWorld article describes how Oracle is going after third-party companies who provide “illegal” Solaris support (patches, updates) to customers who don’t want to go through Oracle.
Oracle will soon be announcing that it’s discontinuing development of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Sun Ray software and hardware, and Oracle Virtual Desktop Client product lines.
https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/entry/important_information_about_oracle_desktop
http://www.zdnet.com/oracle-to-halt-development-of-sun-virtualization-technologies-7000018028/
This YouTube video documents the final shutdown of a SunFire 280R server with 3,737 (10.24) years of continual uptime.
It beats my personal record of almost two years on a Solaris machine, and more than six years on a Cisco switch.
OpenSolaris.org shutting down 24 March 2013
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/
If you need anything from OpenSolaris.org, now is the time to download and archive it.
Solaris 10 update 11 is available now.
Get it here:
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/solaris/solaris10/overview/index.html
Ars Technica has an article up about how the source code to Solaris 11 has been leaked to various file-sharing networks and services, but there has yet to be any sort of official reaction from Oracle. This has led some people to believe that the “leak” may not have been accidental.
Solaris 11 GA released
Today marks the release of Oracle Solaris 11, the first cloud OS.
Oracle Solaris 11 delivers ground-breaking features for secure and agile deployment of services in large scale cloud environments and enterprise data centers. With over 4,000 different new features, Oracle Solaris 11 raises the bar on enterprise operating systems. Oracle Solaris 11 is 7 years in the making and a whole new set of capabilities, from advanced network virtualization to high performance cryptography and virtualization, dependency aware software packing and installation technologies.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/overview/whats-new/index.html
Download: http://oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/downloads/index.htm
Release Notes: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19963-01/index.html#release-info
Documentation: http://oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/documentation/index.html
According to the End-of-Feature Notices, Solaris 11 is dropping support for older “legacy” SPARC hardware:
Support for legacy systems that have included the UltraSPARC I, II, IIe, III, IIIi, III+, IV and IV+ processor architectures (as reported by the Solaris ‘psrinfo -pv’ command) has been removed. All Oracle SPARC Enterprise M-Series Servers and Oracle SPARC T-Series Servers will continue to be supported.
Note: Oracle Solaris 10 will continue to be a supported operating system for these affected platforms as per the current Oracle lifetime support policy.