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 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 ...

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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 ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Sun Tuesday outlined planned improvements for Version 10 of its Solaris operating system, part of its quarterly update of new hardware and software products. Sun’s hardware news – including servers ...

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.