Solaris 11 Released

angry tapir writes "Oracle has updated its Unix-based operating system Solaris, adding some features that would make the OS more suitable for running cloud deployments, as well as integrating it more tightly with other Oracle products. While not as widely known for its cloud software, Oracle has been marketing Solaris as a cloud-friendly OS. In Oracle's architecture, users can set up different partitions, called Zones, inside a Solaris implementation, which would allow different workloads to run simultaneously, each within their own environment, on a single machine."

I only use real Unix, not fake crap like Linux

[jmcbain]

I only use real Unix, like Solaris and Mac OS X, rather than cheap, reverse-engineered, and possibly illegal copies like Linux. At my age and high salary, I should be living like an adult and not steal digital content (like Unix software, movies, or music). I guess if you're young, stupid, and/or poor, then you can go ahead and do immoral things (like touching yourself at night as you stroke your neckbeard, which is what 90% of you do).

Re:8 char usernames

[corbettw]

Jeez, only a complete loser would have an 8-character user name.

I agree completely

[Anonymous Coward]

Let me quote from an email that an associate of mine recently sent me on his experience with Oracle.

"Oracle Solaris Cloud leverages core skillsets and world-class synergy through teamwork to provide clients worldwide with robust, scalable, modern turnkey implementations of flexible, personalized, cutting-edge Internet-enabled ebusiness application product suite esolution architectures that accelerate response to customer and real-world market demands and reliably adapt to evolving technology needs, seamlessly and efficiently integrating and synchronizing with their existing legacy infrastructure, enhancing the sodomy-readiness capabilities of their ecommerce production environments across the enterprise while giving them a critical competitive advantage and taking them to the next level."

Re:Cloud hosting

[SlashV]

"your product name"? Is that you Linus?

Re:8 char usernames

[ThatsMyNick]

You can have longer than 8 character user names, but the characters after 8 are ignored. It's defined in limits.h as LOGNAME_MAX. It's an ABI restriction, hard-coded in several binary formats, NIS restriction, and UNIX interoperability issue. Another limit is the 32-bit character limit from POSIX, but that's been removed, I understand. Don't blame me--I'm just telling you.

Well tried, but I know its your fault!

Re:Cloud hosting

[asdf7890]

Part of the price you pay covers a little pack of IOPS that comes in the box. If you go for a two year support deal they throw in a few MHz too.

Re:Solaris is good as dead

[phoebus1553]

Oracle has been messing up everything else they have acquired that they haven't had time to get around to Virtualbox yet. Don't worry, they'll eventually get around to it - they are fucking up the products in the order of most users to fewest users. ;)

I thought maybe it was alphabetical

Re:I only use real Unix, not fake crap like Linux

[godrik]

wow. Are you keeping tabs on everybody like that?

Re:$1,000/year per CPU for non-Oracle hardware

[renegadesx]

Suddently SCO's "$699 so we won't sue you" is sounding like a bargin.

Re:8 char usernames

[shutdown -p now]

Judging by "ls", "cp" and friends dating back from the dawn of Unix, you had it lucky at six. ~