Thursday, February 8, 2018

Solaris 11.4 Beta - availability

Solaris 11.4 Beta was made available for (temporary) downloading!
I already downloaded the beta version to get very first impressions.








It continues raising the bar with many enhancements and new features.
This time it seems that focus is more related to security and simplification.

I expect advances towards a more modern userland experience.
What I mean is a more updated GNU subsystem, not any GUI stuff.
In fact, it seems Oracle is phasing out most of the GUI stuff.

Solaris is truly becoming more than ever the OS of choice for backing the Web.
The powerful and renewed capabilities of this solid OS fully supports this statement.
Not to mention the options of x86-64 to mid-range and high-end big iron SPARC systems.
  
Once more, since the beginning of this blog I can say:
If it must run, it runs on Solaris!