Solaris Express Developer Edition 5/07 is available now, and there are a lot of new features and packages within this distribution.
A couple of the interesting ones:
- Glassfish Application Server (have to check the version)
- Sun Studio 12
- PostgreSQL 8.2.4
- Apache 2.2.3 (have to check if mod_ldap is already compiled…)
- and many more…
Full detailed what’s new pdf.
Hope to have these packages with Solaris 10 for production, soon. With Solaris 10, we’ re still on apache 2.0.x..
Tomcat and mysql bundled with Solaris 10 are also quite a bit too old for web2.0 projects, which we have in production today.
Currenty, I don’t findy any VMware images to download, only the usual setup DVD download.
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and Solaris is bundeled with some web tier components like apache, mysql, postgresql, but in Solaris 10 with rather outdated versions.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.
For all of you, who are still on Sun Solaris 7, 8 or 9, there’s a very cool page on sun.com, which is showing the difference between these four Solaris versions.
