Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU30 Is The Biggest Update We've Seen In A While

[aht0]

Are you being sarcastic here, or is there something genuinely neat about Solaris's fan speed? What's so good about it? I never noticed anything special about their fan speed back in the day.

Aren't fan speeds controlled by system firmware these days? Nothing much to do with OS itself?

[ed31337]

I swear that the best feature of Solaris is whatever the heck they do to the fan speed. Every time I use Solaris, the fan hum is amazing. Even when I ran Open Solaris on my ancient laptop, it sounded like a super computer's cooling system.

Are you being sarcastic here, or is there something genuinely neat about Solaris's fan speed? What's so good about it? I never noticed anything special about their fan speed back in the day.

[ed31337]

this operating system that was once exciting during the Sun Microsystems days

Umm, nope... I used Solaris during Sun Microsystems' days and was very unimpressed with it. Even in the old days, Linux was far and away ahead of Solaris in terms of usability in my opinion. A base Solaris install had nothing but a crap C compiler that was only useful for bootstrapping a proper gcc compiler. Which you needed right away so you could finally compile all the normal tools you needed to make the machine usable. Whereas Linux usually came with gcc out of the box, and you rarely had to compile anything other than your own software or if you just wanted to run the bleeding edge latest of something.

[FireBurn]

top is in distribution as well. IIRC top is part even of the minimal installation.
prstat is IMO bettere (especially on agregatin processes asross zones/projects/users/groups but that is another story.

Well it's not on any of the solaris boxed I've had to log into over the years

[kloczek]

No it's prstat - I've just googled it again

top is in distribution as well. IIRC top is part even of the minimal installation.
prstat is IMO bettere (especially on agregatin processes asross zones/projects/users/groups but that is another story.

[k1e0x]

No it's prstat - I've just googled it again

Can be both. top can be installed or depends on it's age I believe. The thing about Solaris is it has very good tools to identify performance problems.

[FireBurn]

On solaris equivalent of top is .. top.

No it's prstat - I've just googled it again

[kloczek]

Who still uses this? I shudder when I have to log into a solaris box, then usually frantically google for what the equivalent of top is etc

Usually everyone who needs something what Linux haven't.

[kloczek]

Can it be downloaded and installed on the 'normal' hardware?

Yes ir can be.

[kloczek]

Who still uses this? I shudder when I have to log into a solaris box, then usually frantically google for what the equivalent of top is etc

On solaris equivalent of top is .. top.