Sun Studio 9 FAQ

The product name is "Sun Studio 9". Sun recently announced that the "Sun ONE" branding will no longer apply to new software products. Sun Studio 9 represents a major upgrade and is the replacement product for Sun Studio 8.

This product is supported on the Solaris[tm] operating system, on both the SPARC[r] and the x86 platforms, and on three versions of the Linux operating system. Please refer to our systems requirement page for details.

No. You must install Sun Studio 9 software in a different directory.

You start the Sun Studio 9 IDE with the sunstudio command. For more information, see the sunstudio(1) man page.

With this release we are introducing our first product targeting the Linux OS. This version contains the following components:

• Same NetBeans-based IDE as on our other supported platforms
• Editors of choice: (Vim, XEmacs, builtin)
• Distributed building utility (dmake)
• CLI- and GUI-based debugger (dbx) for GCC generated binaries
• Performance Tools (including Analyzer) for tuning GCC generated executables
• X-Designer GUI builder
• Documentation including Release Notes, man pages, READMEs, and Install Guide

We are supporting:

1. JDS 2003 Java Desktop System , 2003
2. SuSE (SLES) 8 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 x86
3. RHEL 3.0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

No. The Linux version of Sun Studio 9 does not contain the compilers. However, Sun Studio 9 is compatible with the GCC 3.2 compilers. Please note that we do not supply or support the GCC product.

We are employing a single configuration, single box, single price model. The media for all three versions: Solaris SPARC. Solaris x86, and Linux are in the product box. Users are able to install the software on the platform of their choice. A single serial number will enable the software on any one of the platforms.