There’s a new OpenSolaris project called Web Stack which is based on the Cool Stack project. Today, OpenSolaris and Solaris is bundeled with some web tier components like apache, mysql, postgresql, but in Solaris 10 with rather outdated versions. Things like php, rails are missing from Solaris 10. Sun also offers Sun CoolThreads Optimized Open Source Software Stack (Cool Stack), but currently, there is no information, wether Sun will release security patches for these packages. Because of this, I would not use coolstack in production.
It would be great to have an up-to-date version of apache, php, mysql and on pre-installed in /usr/sfw/ with each Solaris installation, as we know it from common Linux distros. This could be an important improvement for Solaris in the future.
I hope the web stack project helps to improve Solaris and makes it Web2.0 ready.
Right, that’s a great problem of Solaris I think. On a minimal installation Solaris is missing most of the common tools we know from any other Unix/Linux OS. Even such simple things as “less” or “vim” are missing and must be installed seperatly from a companion CD.
This is not 1980… think they can start to put common basic tools in actual versions into the default distribution.
many greetings from I-D Media
Falko
Hi Falko,
of course there are some alternatives to self-compiling today like blastwave or openpkg, but having it out of the box would be nice!
Thorleif
Ganz grosse new economy Amt battle hier … I’m amazed!