Will show steps to install the Oracle version of Solaris and where to download it in both ISO and VM image formats. Step 9: Beautiful Solaris Gnome interface Solaris Operating system installation on VirtualBox VM However, there is no official news on it yet.Ĭoming, to the main agenda of this article is how to downloads Oracle Solaris ISO or VM(OVA) to install on VirtualBox Virtual Machine. 9 months ago, still, there are some speculations on the Oracle’s Solaris roadmap i.e whether they will continue the development of it or not. Well, Oracle Solaris latest version is 11.4 and available on Oracle website published approx. It is not completely open source and comes with some proprietary components means few parts are open source to the public and rest of closed such as Solaris kernel source code which apparently becomes closed source after Solaris 11. However, later in 2010, Oracle has accessed Sun Microsystem and till today Solaris is developed and maintained by Oracle under Oracle Solaris project. Solaris is a SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) operating system based on UNIX and primarily developed by Sun Microsystem as a superior version to replace their earlier OS called SunOS. UNIX was developed at Bell Labs in Manhattan. Unix like OS also refer as UN*X or *nix OS are those behaved like UNIX OS following its standardization, basically, they derived from UNIX and sometimes developed as free and open source or proprietary. There is quite a confusion between Unix and open source Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. Just like Linux Distros Unix is also available under different names such as Oracle Solaris, OpenSolaris (Discontinued), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonflyBSD. We are very well acquainted with Linux, however, when it comes to UNIX based operating system then most don’t know from where to download it.

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