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Sun on OSNews

Sun had two mentions on osnews today.

'Open-source' Solaris Draws Lukewarm Response
With some interesting comments on whether or not we can do it (ie copyrights etc) and whether or not we should do it (ie Solaris is dead, long live Linux - It should go without saying, but that's not my belief).
Sun Opens Up with Blogging; Solaris Tidbits
Of course, you already knew about that as you're here reading this now. As I write this there are only three comments, but the general tone is that the move is a good one

As usual osnews makes for some good reading.

As usual, we took a beating on slashdot on the open sourcing Solaris issue, but that seems to be par for the course on just about anything we do.

Posted at 09:06PM Jun 08, 2004 by Alan Hargreaves in General  | 

Solaris Express 6/04 - cd0 is no more

This release should be available on June 8.Starting with Solaris 10 Build 58 (Beta 4, Solaris Express 6/04), the Solaris Installation CD has been combined into the Software 1 of 3, 2 of 3, and 3 of 3 CDs. To install this release, download and create CDs for all three images, and begin your installation by using the Software 1 of 3 CD.

All docs are on docs.sun.com without password protection.

New Features for the Release Include:

  • Solaris Fault Manager-Predictive Self-Healing - Phase I
  • IPv6-Phase II Completion
  • Stinger V20z support
  • New psrinfo Option to Identify Chip Multithreading Features
  • Extended IO Fault Service capability level
  • PAM-Kerboros password migration
  • New Mechanisms for the Solaris Cryptographic Framework
  • Retail and Non-Retail Options for Providers in Solaris Cryptographic Framework
  • Expanded Printer Support
  • Using CacheFS with NFS version 4
  • Sun Java System Message Queue 3.5
  • Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.0

Posted at 12:02PM Jun 08, 2004 by Alan Hargreaves in Solaris Express  |  Comments[1]