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Solaris is a UNIX operating system made at [[Sun Microsystems]] (now [[Oracle]]).  Before version 2 it was BSD based, after version 2 it was based on [[SVR4]]. The last Sun version is [[Solaris_10]]. It worked on x86 (PC) hardware but is more commonly found on [http://www.sparc.com/ Sparc] hardware.  Oracles [[Solaris_11]] works 
only on the sparc architecture.

We wish the folks at [http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ ] would add a little more to the single "hostname" binary, so that when you run "hostname foo" it would update the +5 necessary files that need touched to change ones hostname. If you want to modify your hostname and aren't sure of all of the required files, you might want to try 

 # sys-unconfig

For the last few major revisions of Solaris, the [[DNS]] option has not worked in the installer. You will have to ignore this during installation and configure it afterwards. This issue exists as of the latest version, [[Solaris_10]].