[Info-vax] OT: Solaris-11

[Neil Rieck]

On Dec 4, 7:41 pm, John Wallace <johnwalla... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 1:15 pm, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> > Not sure how many people here also use Solaris, or want to know about
> > improvements in Solaris since Oracle took over. (up until now, I just
> > assumed that Oracle would only do minimum development of Solaris as a
> > leverage for their database engine). This week I was asked to watch a
> > 10 minute promotional video about changes in Solaris-11 and will only
> > pass along two items that jumped out at me:
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> > 1) According to Oracle, Solaris is not fully protected from attack
> > until it is fully booted (really? I was led to believe that security
> > was built into UNIX). For this reason, Solaris-11 has been modified so
> > that the network remains disconnected until booting has finished.
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> > (there was no mention of what to do when booting from a network
> > storage device like a SAN so maybe the speaker didn't mean physically
> > disconnected, just really restricted)
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> > 2) Like Windows software updates, Solaris-11 software updates can now
> > be performed automatically or semi-automatically by the target system
> > (if the system admin desires).
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> > NSR
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> Maybe it's just me but when I saw "Solaris-11" I wondered why
> comp.os.vms would be discussing Oracle's release of Solaris for the
> PDP11.

For years now the Solaris version number was the OS minor number (eg.
Solaris-8 = SunOS-5.8) so is Solaris-11 = SunOS-5.11 ???

NSR