So here’s one you don’t hear of often. You might have even wondered if it still existed. Last I remember of it was on a funny little box shoved in the corner that no one touched in years, along side that DEC Alpha box that never did have software support. Yes, that’s right, we’re talking about Sun’s Solaris operating system. It’s up to version 10 now. And people really do use it. Somewhere. In theory. Or at least Sun likes to think so.

Well, anyway, Sun released an update for Solaris 10. It allows virtualized instances of Solaris 8 and 9 to run inside of Solaris Containers. So that you can still run Solaris 8 and 9 apps on Solaris 10. Which sounds neat. But also makes you wonder why it didn’t do that right out of the box.

Also under the lines of why didn’t they do this sooner, the update also adds support for Intel’s SpeedStep power management technology. Again … why did it take this long?

But then, it’s Solaris. So who cares? No one uses it anyway. It just sits in the computer graveyard with the rest of the great ideas that never panned out junk.

But if you do use Solaris, it’s good to know that Sun hasn’t left you in the dark. (Ha ha.)