Solaris[tm] 8 Operating Environment 1/01
System Specification Information

Product System Requirements
Disk space:        1 GB minimum
                   2 GB typical

NOTE: Required disk space will vary based on OS packages selected,
      desktop or server use, desired swap & temporary space,
      localizations/translations, online documentation and
      applications installed

Memory:
Desktop configurations:    Minimum 64 MB (128 MB or greater recommended)
Server configurations:     Minimum 64 MB (128 MB or greater recommended)

NOTE: Memory requirements will vary depending on the application
software being used, system configurations and the number of
clients/users.

Platform

SPARC and Intel (Minimum i486 processor) platform.
Solaris 8 1/01 update release also supports Sun Blade(TM) 100 and Sun
Blade(TM) 1000.

Operating Environment
N/A

Licensing
Unlike previous versions of the Solaris Operating Environment, there
is no longer a distinction made between Desktop and Server licenses.
In addition, there are also no longer different license classes based
on number of concurrent users.

A base Solaris license is required to run the Solaris 8 Operating
Environment.  Sun System Products come with the appropriate Solaris
license, so customers who purchase Sun hardware are automatically
licensed to run the Solaris 8 software.

For OEMs and customers with non-Sun hardware, a Solaris license is
required. License fees vary depending on the hardware configuration
and in some cases - such as the non-commercial licenses offered
through the free Solaris program - are at no charge.

Software Category
N/A

Relevant Standards Supported
 - Year-2000 Compliance:  Year-2000 compliance follows X/Open(R)
   guidelines
 - Interface Standards:  UNIX(R) platform 98 from X/Open
 - EPA Energy Star Compliance:  Solaris Operating Environment
   suspend/resume and power management features
 - Graphics Standards:  X11,  PostScript(TM), Display PostScript(TM),
   OpenGL(R), ISO-10646 and the ICC profile format standard
 - Desktop Standards:  CDE (Common Desktop Environment), Motif
 - Connectivity Standards:  ONC(TM), ONC+(TM), NFS(TM), WebNFS(TM),
   and optional NetWare IPX(TM)/SPX, SNA, SMB, AppleTalk, DECnet
   and other standards
 - Internet Standards:  HTTP, ftp, telnet, DNS, NTP, IMAP4, DHCP,
   SNMP, SMTP
 - Object Standards:  Java IDL

Compatible Sun Products, Unbundled Software
N/A

Compatible Third-Party Applications
For the Solaris Operating Environment, there are over 11,000
applications from over 4,900 vendors.  On the SPARC platform, there
are over 8,000 applications, and on Intel, there are over 3,500
applications that run on the Solaris Operating Environment.  Existing
Solaris applications using the published Solaris Application
Programming Interfaces will continue to run unchanged on the Solaris
8 Operating Environment. For a complete listing of third-party
product that run on the Solaris Operating Environment, please see
the  Sun Solutions Catalog at http://solutions.sun.com/.