Saturday November 06, 2004
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Saturday November 06, 2004
Solaris Express 10/04
Well, I've been very very busy lately, so totally missed writing about the release of Solaris Express 10/04 - fortunately Alan and Dan have both done a very good job of covering it. So good in fact, I'm having a hard time trying to find changes in these builds that they didn't mention that I think are still worth mentioning. I did find a few however:
- New look and feel for graphical login screen (but I already told you about that)
- Over 350 man page updates
- System shutdown/crash time now recorded in wtmpx so "last reboot" will show how long your system was down for.
- "isainfo -x" now shows which optional instruction set extensions (i.e. SSE, SSE2, MMX, etc. on x86, VIS, VIS2, etc. on SPARC) are available on the current cpu
- sshd now uses the settings in /etc/default/login to set its defaults
- xhost user-based authentication for local connections ("xhost +si:localuser:alanc", see Xsecurity(5) man page)
- On Solaris x86, /usr/X11/bin/scanpci to get a simple listing of PCI devices & ids. (Though prtconf is still the way to go for full gory detail.)
Like most S10/Express users, I'm still learning my way around the new Service Management Framework found in this build, but I'm liking what I'm seeing. (I'm working on converting the X services to use it - not sure yet when that will go in though.)
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Posted at 02:10PM Nov 06, 2004 by Alan Coopersmith in Solaris | Comments[2]
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