Oracle Solaris 11

As of right now, Oracle Solaris 11 is officially available to download:
Oracle Solaris 11 Downloads

"Oracle Solaris 11. The First Cloud OS. #1 UNIX, Built for Clouds, Engineered for Oracle." ,as they introduced it, has many new great features. Read more here:
Oracle Solaris 11 Overview
Oracle Solaris 11 - What's New

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Everyone

Is this the 1st Solaris release since Oracle bought Sun? I haven't really kept up with Solaris... I have to occasionally deal with some old Solaris 8 systems that may never get upgraded.

UnixGuy

Everyone wrote: »

Is this the 1st Solaris release since Oracle bought Sun? I haven't really kept up with Solaris... I have to occasionally deal with some old Solaris 8 systems that may never get upgraded.

They released "Solaris 11 express" before, it was a point-in-time release, with some of the features implemented. They released it specifically for Exadata and Exalogic.

This is the complete final release, and it is GREAT! So many excellent features!! They did really well with this release

Everyone

"#1 Enterprise Operating System" according to who, and in what way? Certainly not #1 by market share.

Kind of amusing that the old Sun logo appears above the Oracle logo on the side of the rack on the "What's New" page.

I'm probably most interested in what new advances there are in ZFS with this release.

I'll have to download Solaris 11 and play around with it a bit. I've been meaning to check out Oracle Linux too.

UnixGuy

Everyone wrote: »

"#1 Enterprise Operating System" according to who, and in what way? Certainly not #1 by market share.

Kind of amusing that the old Sun logo appears above the Oracle logo on the side of the rack on the "What's New" page.

I'm probably most interested in what new advances there are in ZFS with this release.

I'll have to download Solaris 11 and play around with it a bit. I've been meaning to check out Oracle Linux too.

So many for ZFS: de-duplication and compression on the OS level, encryption...many things

MentholMoose

I've been using Express in my home lab for a while (mostly for iSCSI storage). I like the features ZFS offers and it's not too hard to use (I'm mostly familiar with Linux). I'm updating that box now.

Everyone wrote: »

I've been meaning to check out Oracle Linux too.

OEL is RHEL with Oracle branding... the same idea as CentOS and SL except with enterprise support.

Bl8ckr0uter

I guess I will download this. Let's take this for a whirl. What do you suggest for ultranoobs wanting to learn solaris?

MentholMoose

Bl8ckr0uter wrote: »

I guess I will download this. Let's take this for a whirl. What do you suggest for ultranoobs wanting to learn solaris?

I'm sure the experts will chime in with some good resources, but with some basic Linux experience you can function in Solaris. The installation is simple and a lot of the commands are the same (although some have different switches). As long as you can figure out what command you need to use for a particular task, you can check the man page to figure out exactly what to do.

UnixGuy

Bl8ckr0uter wrote: »

I guess I will download this. Let's take this for a whirl. What do you suggest for ultranoobs wanting to learn solaris?

I'm downloading it too. This should be a good start:
Getting Started with Oracle Solaris 11 Express
but I'm still exploring it

UnixGuy

New fault management features in Solaris 11: (excellent when used with Oracle OPs center)
Solaris11FCS (Community Group fm.Solaris11FCS) - XWiki

This is a nice write-up about the new features for Solaris 11 as a desktop OS:
https://blogs.oracle.com/calum/entry/what_s_new_on_the

UnixGuy

Interesting to watch: A replay of the launch webcast:

Oracle Solaris 11 Launch Webcast