Cool Stack to Sun Web Stack http://blogs.sun.com/shanti/entry/cool_stack_roadmap
Recently, Sun released Cool Stack 1.3.1. Shani, a Senior Staff Engineer in the Perormance & Applications Engineering Group (PAE),
reports, "This was the last release that was built to work on releases as old as Solaris 10 01/06 (Update 1). Going forward, future versions of the stack will only be supported on newer Solaris 10 updates. So I'd like to urge everyone who is running older releases to please schedule their systems for upgrade. We highly recommend that you upgrade to at least Solaris 10 01/08 (Update 5) as it has many performance, security and other fixes."
He continues, "to enable a unified stack, we are now transitioning Cool Stack to Sun Web Stack. This new stack was announced
in OSCON in July. It will be very similar to Cool Stack in that it will be separately downloadable but it will be a full-fledged product in that customers who want production support, can now purchase it. The stack will continue to be available free of charge with limited support via a forum."
The first version of Sun Web Stack will be 1.4 (keeping the Cool Stack versioning in place) and should be available in November
Cool Stack Contents
The following sections lists all of the packages available. For details on version numbers, modules/extensions included etc. please read the documentation available on the download site.
CSKamp. This package is comprised of 3 packages: CSKapache2, CSKphp5 and CSKmysql32 for a more flexible installation. The 3 components are pre-configured to work together. The MySQL included in this package is a 32-bit version with client-side support to work with PHP. For the database server, we recommend the CSKmysql package which is a 64-bit version, allowing the use of larger caches to deliver improved performance for large databases. However, on smaller systems you can use the 32-bit MySQL in this (CSKamp) package for the database server.
CSKruntime. This package containes core libraries used by many of the other packages and should be installed first.
CSKmysql. This package includes a 64bit version of MySQL and is built with innodb. See the README file in the mysql install directory for details.
CSKperl. This package includes Perl 5. In addition to being better optimized, CSKperl includes several perl extensions used by popular applications.
CSKlibsbundle This package consists of libraries required by various PHP extensions and is made up of 3 packages: CSKtds, CSKncurses, CSKlibs
CSKmemcached. This package includes memcached, a distributed object cache system.
CSKruby. This package includes ruby, rubygems and rails.
CSKsquid. This package includes Squid Web Proxy Cache.
CSKtomcat. This package includes two packages CSKtomcat5 and CSKtomcat6. Apache Tomcat is a pure Java application. It is provided for convenience as it is no different from the one on tomcat.apache.org.
CSKlighttpd. This package includes lighttpd, the increasingly popular, light-weight http server.
CSKpython. New! This package includes python and mod_python.
CSKnginx. New! This package includes nginx, another light-weight http server.
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transitioning Cool Stack to Sun Web Stack
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