Solaris is a Unix operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for its workstations and servers. It grew out of SunOS, which was based on the Berkeley Software Distribution; in the early 1990s Sun rebuilt the system on System V Release 4 and marketed it under the Solaris name. It became known for supporting large multiprocessor servers and for technologies such as the ZFS file system and the DTrace tracing tool. Sun released much of its code as OpenSolaris in 2005, a move that inspired derivatives such as illumos. After Oracle bought Sun in 2010, the open-source development ended, and Solaris continued as a commercial product.
Before and after
- 3 December 1990Wayne County Airport runway collision
- 1991Founding of United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
- 1991Founding of National Bank of Ukraine
- 1991Identification of Paris syndrome
- 1991Creation of Solaris
- 1991(Everything I Do) I Do It for You
- 1991Founding of Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
- 1991Rise of Britpop
- 1991Introduction of Slovenian tolar
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