Sockets provide an interface into the kernel’s networking protocols by allowing programmers to create a communication endpoint in the form of a file descriptor, and by binding a name to the file ...

Prior to Solaris 2.6, sockets were an abstraction that existed at the library level. That is, much of the socket state and socket semantics support were provided within the libsocket library. The ...

From a technical perspective, of course, the right way to compare AIX to Solaris is to look at the technology. That might seem like it should be a lot of work but a long article by IBM's Shiv Dutta: ...

Sometimes the dog to watch is the one that doesn't bark. In this case that could be the effort to get Solaris running on 64bit PPC hardware. Solaris 2.5.1 ran on 32bit PPC, and there are people ...

I am at a point right now where I must choose which operating system to use for an ISP. As such, it must be fast, stable, secure, and scalable. The learning curve does not matter much to me, I am used ...

In part 1 of this two-part article, the E-Commerce Times explored Linux’ potential to win market share from Solaris, Sun’s proprietary version of Unix, as Linux is used to power ever more ...

The newly released Solaris 10 includes a radical new technology called DTrace which lets you look inside the usual black box of a running production application to see exactly where the bottlenecks ...