There is no more end of service life eosl like it was at sun in oracle terms. Its nice to have a look at java desktop system 3 while its n. Oracle linux support lifecycle has been extended to 10. Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs.
Since changes to the ubuntu support cycle mean that ubuntu. More discussions in solaris 10 this discussion is archived. In the last article, we have seen how to install the ai server and configuring ai server with dhcp. But that doesnt cover,the installation of customized client like timezone,hostname,ip address, dns and root account password etchere we will see how we can install solaris 11 with precustomized profile. Be advised that the packages on unix packages are only available through a paid subscription service, as this new site is not.
What oracles eol announcements of solaris and sparc mean. Im going to attempt to answer all your questions here. Endofsoftware support statements oracle solaris 10 9. Please visit our new website unix packages provides full package support for all levels of solaris from 2. At this time, the date of the final eol announcement is set to be one year. Warning if upgrading from a previous version of glib that was built using autotools, and the libtool archives. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. The mysql and postgresql versions that shipped with oracle solaris 10 have been eold. I was looking for a while to find official answers on how long a sun or an oracle hardware could be under a valid service contract. After january 31, there will be two types of support available for oracle solaris 10.
The solaris 11 does not come bundled with the desktop gui package by default, so you will have to install the desktop gui. Development files for glib, a generalpurpose utility library opensuse ports leap 15. To that end, cadence will end support for the solaris 8 and solaris 9 oss on the sparc platform and solaris 10 will become the baseline os on the sparc platform for new cadence releases beginning january 1, 2008. In order to compile certain more recent programs, solaris 10s default gcc is often too old. Oracle solaris 10 support explained oracle solaris blog. The companion cd files install in subdirectories of the optsfw file system rather than in usrlocal. For a complete list of system requirements and supported platforms, please consult the users guide information about each release can be found in the release notes each windows package comes with the latest stable release of npcap, which is required for live packet capture. Existing solaris 8 and solaris 9 releases and new releases up to dec 31, 2007 will not. How to install gcc on solaris easiest way possible i. Endofsoftware support statements oracle solaris 10 910. The article is based on a default server installation as shown here. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. The gcc or gnu compiler collection is a free and multiplatform compiler system used as a development tool for software written in several programming languages.
As with earlier versions, several solaris 10 update releases are planned to come out prior to the next solaris version. With lifetime support for oracle hardware, oracle hardware systems will be supported continue reading oracle sun hw eoleosl. Solaris does not work exactly the way linux does with versions of libc because there are different versions of sparc architecure. Oracle sun hardware and operating systems, oracle solaris. Thankfully, gcc 4 compiles without any problems on solaris 10, so it is only a matter of hours to build a newer one. Installing the oracle solaris desktop software package. I download sun solaris 10sol10u5gax86dvdisoa, then i extract the file but i cannot install.
By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. It provides advanced data structures, such as memory chunks, doubly and singly linked lists, thread programming, mutuxes, etc. For linux, the glibc package was needed for its installation but i dont know if in solaris the solaris libc can work in place of glibc. Starting with oct16 the surcharge fee for systems older than 5 years is 15% now was 5% but i could not find any public document reflecting that. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. All glib functions returning or accepting pathnames have been changed to expect filenames in this encoding, and the common posix functions dealing with pathnames have been wrapped.
All present and past releases can be found in our download area installation notes. Get started download packages packages see full software list search packages content bug tracker access to mantis feeds subscribe to rss. These release notes also include endofsoftware support statements, documentation issues, and a list of fixed bugs that were previously documented. The oracle solaris 10 release notes documents important installation and runtime issues and bugs. For solaris 7, 8 and 9 the tgcware v2 for solaris build scripts are used. The mysql and postgresql versions that shipped with oracle solaris 10 have been eol d. I download sun solaris 10 sol 10 u5gax86dvdisoa, then i extract the file but i cannot install.
Glibc configuration error on solaris stack overflow. What oracles eol announcements of solaris and sparc mean for your business change is inevitable within the it landscape where technical and scientific advancement in congruence with the escalating demands of modern businesses drive the evolution of available technology. All glib functions returning or accepting pathnames have been changed to expect filenames in this encoding, and the common. The solaris web site makes it sound as easy as linux ubuntu but the files do nothing after being downloaded.
Installing the oracle solaris desktop software package after. When sun can provide the first notification to customers that it will be announcing the eol of a milestone version. Support for packages has been discontinued on sunfreeware. There is not really much to see here, as it is a mostly standard gnome 2 desktop. The advice you got about where to find gcc relates to solaris 10, not solaris 11.
How to install gcc on solaris easiest way possible. Images for several opensolaris versions are available. The live cd version dvd actually boots and installs solaris 11 from the gui similar to most modern linux distros. It is basically the same layout used in solaris 9 and ubuntu 10.
In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris. Free and open source software foss in oracle solaris 10 oracle is working to ensure that the strength of the oracle solaris operating system is complemented by a collection of popular, freely available software. I am trying to determine the eol end of life date for solaris 10. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. The list of open source software fully supported for oracle solaris 10 follows. At the same time, it is advisable to use a newer gnu assembler than usrsfwbingas. Glib is the lowlevel core library that forms the basis for projects such as gtk and gnome. List of supported oracle hardware with last ship dates announced doc id 1450710. I also patched the command line interface of qalculate, and im working. Solaris 9sparc packages are built in a solaris 9 zone running on a sunfire 880 with 4xusiii 900mhz cpus and 8192mb ram. How to install desktop gui in solaris 11 x86 the geek. When you install the new solaris 11 x86 box in your production environment or in lab environment under vmware workstation, you would not find the gui desktop as you would have got for connecting solaris 10 x86 server.
The interim solaris 10 305 hw 1 and hw 2 releases are no longer necessary. And systems support could be discontinued after eosl. It provides data structure handling for c, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system. Glib2devel download for linux eopkg, rpm download glib2devel linux packages for alt linux, centos, fedora, mageia, opensuse, pclinuxos, solus. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Well unlike the solaris virtual box file which was designed for virtual box, i am not having the same luck getting either the live iso or the live usb download files to work. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs and time slider. Solaris 10 operating system os the latest update release is solaris 10 606. We already covered the extension of ksplice support for red hat enterprise linux in this previous blog post, but the associated press release included another important announcement. In this post we will see how to install gcc on a solaris operating system, taking into account all the prerequisites and configuration parameters strictly required, so as to elaborate.
For both sparc and x86 architectures, solaris provides optimized c standard libraries. Oracle linux support lifecycle has been extended to 10 years. The glib is a crossplatform bundle of lowlevel system libraries written in c and developed by gnome. The top tier of free and open source software in oracle solaris 10 is fully supported per the terms of oracles premier support for oracle solaris. Our commitment to deliver a superior ownership experience oracle and sun system software and operating systems may, 2020 page 4 oracle premier support for software youve made an investment in oracle solutions to make your business more efficient, costeffective, riskresistant and competitive. Libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by lsof. I managed to port the libqalculate library to os x using cocoa classes to replace the glib functions and other patches. Execute following commands to configure system settings for oracle. The oracle solaris 11 text installer does not include the primary software package that includes the gnome 2. With oracle solaris 10 premier support ending on january 31, 2018, weve been getting questions about the different support options for oracle solaris 10 going forward. Is there any support end date for version 10 of solaris from sun. The gnu versions of the utilities are relatively flexible, in the sense that they most often support additional useful features. The download page and detailed instructions are here.
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