Solaris Operating System

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Afara Websystems – Contributions and impact

The project included many technology contributions among Linux, Solaris and SPARC. The Afara CPU used a SPARC port of Debian Linux initially. Debian Linux contributions to Afara Websystem’s former CPU architecture continued to grow, including commercial support for Ubuntu, a Debian-based Linux operating system. Afara Websystems’ former platform direction seemed further validated when Sun hired [...]

SCO Skunkware – Introduction

SCO Skunkware, often referred to as simply “Skunkware”, is a collection of Open Source software projects ported, compiled, and packaged for free redistribution on SCO operating environments. SCO Skunkware packaged components exist for SCO Xenix, SCO UNIX, SCO OpenServer 5, SCO OpenServer 6, UnixWare 2, Caldera OpenLinux, Open UNIX 8, and UnixWare 7. SCO Skunkware [...]

GNU GRUB – Features

GRUB is dynamically configurable. It loads its configuration at startup, allowing boot-time changes such as selecting different kernels or initial RAM disks. To this end, GRUB provides a simple, bash-like, command line interface which lets users write new boot sequences. GRUB is highly portable. It supports multiple executable formats, and is geometry translation independent. Although [...]

Cygwin – Description

Cygwin consists of a library that implements the POSIX system call API in terms of Win32 system calls, a GNU development toolchain (such as GCC and GDB) to allow software development, and a large number of application programs equivalent to those on the Unix system. Many Unix programs have been ported to Cygwin, including the [...]

PCBoard – Multinode support

PCBoard supported the 16C550 UARTS (universal asynchronous receiver transmitter), such as 16550 UART (“Fifo”), 16554 UART and 16650 UART, which made it possible to run multiple nodes of the BBS on a single (multitasking) computer using either using IBM OS/2 or the DOS multitasking tool DESQview in combination with the memory manager QEMM. Some sysops [...]

BALL – Introduction

BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) is an extensive open source C++ framework of algorithms and data structures for molecular modelling and computational structural bioinformatics. The library also offers a Python scripting interface. Among the supported systems are Linux, Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and MacOS X. The library is supplemented with command-line utilities and supports display with Qt [...]

Page (computer memory) – Huge pages

Intel x86 supports 4MB pages (called Page Size Extension) (2MB pages if using PAE) in addition to its standard 4kB pages, and other architectures may often have similar features. IA-64 supports as many as eight different page sizes, from 4kB up to 256MB. This support for ”huge pages” (known as ”superpages” in FreeBSD, and ”large [...]

MMDF – Introduction

MMDF, the Multichannel Memorandum Distribution Facility, is a mail transfer agent (MTA), a computer program designed to transmit e-mail. It was originally developed at the University of Delaware in the late 1970s, and provided the initial means of operating CSNet, the predecessor to NSFnet. It grew in popularity throughout the 1980s, and was selected by [...]

Spring (operating system) – Rationale

Although Sun was also interested in supporting multiple operating systems, their needs were nowhere as pressing as IBM or Apple. By this point in time they had already moved platforms from their early 68k-based machines to their SPARC-based lineup, and their UNIX System V-based Solaris operating system was taking over from their BSD-based SunOS. Sun’s [...]

Gpart – Partition types

Supported (guessable) filesystem or partition types: * BeOS filesystem type. * FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD disklabel sub-partitioning scheme used on Intel platforms. * IBM OS/2 High Performance filesystem. * Linux ext2 (second extended filesystem). * Linux LVM physical volumes (LVM by Heinz Mauelshagen). * Linux swap partitions (versions 0 and 1). * The Minix operating system filesystem type. [...]

Single user mode – Unix family

Unix-like operating systems provide single user mode functionality either through the SystemV style runlevels or to the BSD style boot-loader options. Run levels are usually changed using the init command, runlevel 1 or S will boot into single user mode. Boot-loader options can be changed during startup before the execution of the kernel. On FreeBSD [...]

SWsoft – Introduction

SWsoft was a privately held server automation and virtualization software company and the parent company of Parallels, Inc. SWsoft developed software for running data centers, particularly for web-hosting services companies, application service providers, and managed service providers. SWsoft products included applications for operating system-level virtualization, which enables users to run multiple operating systems, including Windows, [...]

Automounter – Software shares and repositories

In some computing environments, user workstations and computing nodes do not host installations of the full range of software that users might want to access. Systems may be “imaged” with a minimal or typical cross-section of the most commonly used software. Also, in some environments, users might require specialized or occasional access to older versions [...]

Sun-4 – Sun-4 architecture

The Sun-4 ”architecture” refers to the VME-based architecture described above and used in the Sun 4/100, 4/200, SPARCserver 300 and SPARCserver 400 ranges. Sun-4 support was included in SunOS 3.2 onwards and Solaris 2.1 to 2.4. OpenBSD also will run on the Sun-4 architecture families. Several variations on the Sun-4 architecture were subsequently developed and [...]









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