Nearly Half a Million!!!

Well Sun certainly has captured the interest of both the existing Solaris Community and hopefully some new converts with the FCS ship of Solaris 10! As of last night around 19:30 when I received the RSS feed, the stats for downloads of Solaris 10 were as follows, as extracted from a blog by Jonathan Schwartz:

**SPARC**: 151,039

**x64/x86**: 269,856

**Total**: **420,895**

Now that's a *truckload* of downloads of a *free* *quality* *mature* *supportable* *scalable* *dependable* operating environment (who else gives you all that?).

If you haven't downloaded Solaris 10 yet, what are you waiting for? Get downloading! Intel/AMD64/SPARC all supported! StarOffice (derived from OpenOffice) productivity suite included. And GCC!

And hardly forgetting the cutting edge diagnostic ability with DTrace, which provides unparalleled visibility of Kernel operation; and Solaris Containers (Zones) - create multiple running Solaris instances on a single PC or SPARC system!

And coming to a screen near you ( ;-) ) a revolutionary way of managing your Megabytes through Terabytes through to Zettabytes of your disk storage (if you are lucky enough to have either of the latter two ;-) ) with ZFS!

And OpenSolaris is gathering momentum by the day, and the number of participants on the Pilot is still increasing. Watch the Press closely for announcements!

The Solaris Revolution is only just beginning! Let the Good Times Roll!

Interesting survey results...

(Extract from a Sun blog:)

An [interesting survey][1] shows that the _"Most popular OS amongst top 100 universities is: Sun Solaris"_. It says: 

   Exact number of universities using:



     1. Sun Solaris (7/8/9): 47

     2. Linux: 31

     3. FreeBSD: 6

     4. Microsoft Windows 2000: 5

     5. Compaq Tru64 UNIX: 2

     6. Microsoft Windows Server 2003: 2

     7. IBM AIX: 2

     8. Microsoft Windows NT/98: 1

     9. BSD/OS: 1

     10. Unknown: 3

      [1]: http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/9894

Its really great to see that Solaris is top banana in the University world! And can only be on the increase as more of OpenSolaris becomes available to the public; thus spawning a new generation of university R&D projects.

(Err... "Unknown:3"? I wonder who they asked... ;-) )

Solaris 10 FCS Available!!!

Well, hearty congratulations must go to Sun. Solaris 10 is available for download right on schedule. Just go to www.sun.com/solaris fill in a brief licence survey, and *get downloading*!

The images available even include the Solaris 10 Companion CD containing a bunch of Open Source stuff; something which has not been available to the public as yet.

Its going to be a massive year for Sun, with OpenSolaris DTrace already made publicly available (and already having been downloaded many thousands of times!) and more to come very soon!