Sunday September 05, 2004 Solaris 10 with JDS looking fine
I just install the most recent build of Solaris 10 x86 build 66 on a Dual Opteron Tyan S2885 system. I cannot believe the improvement in the system from where it was just a build or two ago.
The new Service Management Frameworks have improved by magnitudes from where it was a build or two ago. These new frameworks will simplify the administration of UNIX services, and are one of the key features being added to Solaris 10.
In addition, the Java Desktop System for Solaris was added in build 66, and it is looking very nice indeed. The X server team has been doing a lot of bug fixing on fonts and such, so it is starting to look like a very nice system. Customers are going to like having this on Solaris (x86 and SPARC for that matter;-), and this will make it much easier to setup and use a Solaris system for most everyone.
I was very pleased to see the Mozilla Desktop team had integrated Mozilla 1.7 into this build. This is the latest stable release of Mozilla, and it was very nice to see the hard work of the Mozilla team starting to really show in the actual product. Gone are the days where you have an outdated browser, this is the most recent stable release of Mozilla. I would like to congratulate the Mozilla Desktop team on a fine job with this prompt integration.
Another surprise was working audio on a standard install. After I loaded the Companion CD and installed KDE, was I ever surprised as my speakers came to life as I started up KDE. This was a very refreshing response! Most AC '97 devices should work, and I know that the team working on the audio drivers have come up with a solution for Sony Vaio laptops. There has been problems with Sony Vaio laptops where the audio device shares the same interrupt with several other devices. Somehow the device doesn't receive servicable interrupts, and all of the known audio drivers available in the community and commercially have not been able to work on the Vaios.
The next time someone tells you how out of date Solaris is, please do me a favor and laugh in their face...Solaris Enineering is bringing Solaris into modern times with features and applications that our customers have been asking for. Stay tuned for more in the way of laptop support with Power Management, better ACPI, wireles drivers and much, much more.
( Sep 05 2004, 11:12:34 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [7]
Webmin going into Solaris!
It has been approved for Webmin to go into Solaris 10. Webmin is a nice web based tool which let's you configure and administrate a system, over the web. I was shown a demo of this and it's very nice, and it will be a very nice addition to Solaris x86 and Solaris SPARC.
Sun is really changing the way they do things, and things are clipping along at the speed of light! Congrats to those that worked through the process of getting this software included in Solaris. Look for it on the Companion CD for Solaris 10
( Sep 05 2004, 11:27:48 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [3]