Hi, I am MCSE and RHCE certified, I would like to know more on UNIX enviorment and architecture, basically Sun Solaris.Could anyone guide me..?  

What is Solaris?

"Solaris" is Sun Microsystems' version of Unix Operating System, based on AT&T's System V Unix, with a lot more features and improvements. It is one of the most popular Unix environments that is being used by corporates today.

Learning Solaris, as of learning any other flavor of Unix, seems a daunting task for a beginner, because of its unfriendly and cryptic commands and not knowing where to look in case some help is needed.

The best way to start learning Solaris (or any Unix or Linux for that matter) is to understand the principles or philosophy behind its design. Once that is understood, you can see its elegance, power and versatility. Then understand the basic concepts, commands and tools that gives you the confidence in using Solaris.

Solaris tutorials: www.unix-tutorials.com/tutoria ls.php?os=Solaris

Answered by keshto , an ibibo Master, at 7:09 PM on August 22, 2008

Well , Solaris is a Unix-based operating system introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1992 as the successor to SunOS.

Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, as well for being the origin for many innovative features such as DTrace and ZFS.

Solaris supports SPARC-based and x86-based workstations and servers from Sun and other vendors, with efforts underway to port to additional platforms.

Solaris is certified against the Single Unix Specification. Although it was historically developed as proprietary software, it is supported on systems manufactured by all major server vendors, and the majority of its codebase is now open source software via the OpenSolaris project.

Supported architectures

Solaris uses a common code base for the platforms it supports: SPARC and i86pc (which includes both x86 and x64).[6]

Solaris has a reputation for being well-suited to symmetric multiprocessing, supporting a large number of CPUs.
It has historically been tightly integrated with Sun's SPARC hardware (including support for 64-bit SPARC applications since Solaris 7), with which it is marketed as a combined package. This has often led to more reliable systems, but at a cost premium over commodity PC hardware. However, it has also supported x86 systems since Solaris 2.1 and the latest version, Solaris 10, includes support for 64-bit x86 applications, allowing Sun to capitalize on the availability of commodity 64-bit CPUs based on the x86-64 architecture.

Sun has heavily marketed Solaris for use with both its own "x64" workstations and servers based on AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors, as well as x86 systems manufactured by companies such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM. As of 2007, the following vendors support Solaris for their x86 server systems:

* Dell - will "test, certify, and optimize Solaris and OpenSolaris on its rack and blade servers and offer them as one of several choices in the overall Dell software menu"[8]
* IBM - also distributes Solaris and Solaris Subscriptions for select x86-based IBM System x servers and BladeCenter servers[9]
* Intel
* Hewlett-Packard[
* Fujitsu Siemens

For more details , Please visit the source site :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S olaris_(operating_system)

Answered by Alok Gupta , an ibibo Guru, at 5:04 PM on August 22, 2008

hi dear..

Well Developing software under Unix can be daunting at first. Unix shell commands are cryptic, as if Unix had been developed by professional programmers for professional programmers. In demystifying Unix, I have found the following textbooks and reference books useful.

High-level compiled languages
C Programming, reference book: Brian Kernighan and Rob Ritchie, The C Programming Language, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 1988, ISBN 0131103709.
C++ Programming, user's guide: Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ programming language, 3rd ed., Addison-Wesley, 1997, ISBN 0201889544.
C++ Programming, standard library: C++ Standard Library, Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN 0201379260.

And for detail on architecture plzz refer:
http://users.ece.utexas.edu /~bevans/talks/software_development /

Answered by Dan !!!!!! , an ibibo Specialist, at 3:52 PM on August 22, 2008