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pageicon Tuesday Oct 26, 2004

Solaris Express 10/04 is coming

Solaris Express 10/04 (s10_69) should be available for download around October 29!

Some of the new features for the release include:

  • Solaris Service Manager(Greenline)
  • JDS Release 3
  • Oban (Solaris Volume Manager for SunCluster)
  • Ipsec/IKE NAT traversal
  • OpenSSL and PKCS#11 for OpenSSL
  • Hardware Random Number Generation support
  • Failed Account Login Account Locking
  • Track Uptime across reboots
  • Solaris 1394 Mass Storage Driver-x86
  • Remove Netscape4.7xin Solaris *Mozilla 1.4 removal
  • Xorg replaces Xsun as the default X server on x86
  • DTrace USDT (User-land Statically Defined Tracing) and plockstat Provider
  • New Realtek NIC driver

As usual, the documentation will be available at docs.sun.com.

Greenline and the Xorg transition are likely to cause a little frustration. Greenline because it is such a complete mindset change, and Xorg in getting the configurations correct. I am expecting to see some of the respective engineers blogging on at least these two over the next few weeks.

Posted at 05:19PM Oct 26, 2004 by Alan Hargreaves in Solaris Express  |  Comments[13]

Comments:

Hi Alan, So is there no web browser in Solaris 10 now?

Posted by Richard Skelton on October 26, 2004 at 10:05 PM EST #

Richard, I'd say that there could be a possibility that Firefox *maybe* embraced by SUN, either that or some other Mozilla derived version like Netscape (spit).

Posted by kaiwai on October 27, 2004 at 01:13 AM EST #

Alan, no ZFS?

Posted by Tao on October 27, 2004 at 01:47 AM EST #

[Trackback] So, I'm looking at the next round of changes to be introduced to Solaris 10 via the 10/04 Express release, and I'm struck by the continued presence of sendmail in Solaris. I just don't understand it. Does anyone willingly deploy sendmail anymore? Ce...

Posted by VMUNIX Blues on October 27, 2004 at 05:13 AM EST #

Hi, Yes, yes, yes ! =) Kinda ironic that its released in the middle of my HSC Hargraves: (since you're Australian) ? Anyway, I shall promise myself that I won't play with this until after my exams. Yeah. Right =). Nobody had better submit this to slashdot before I get a chance to download it.... Bye, Victor

Posted by Victor Hooi on October 27, 2004 at 02:15 PM EST #

Richard, actually Solaris 10 includes Mozilla 1.7. It's part of the JDS Release 3 that Alan mentioned.

Posted by David Comay on October 27, 2004 at 04:00 PM EST #

Mozilla 1.7 forms a part of JDS3.

alan.

Posted by Alan Hargreaves on October 28, 2004 at 10:36 AM EST #

I have some folks here that can hardly wait to try JDS3's connector to Outlook as soon as I get a jumpstart image stood up. Unfortunately, I just tried the downloaded zip files for 10/04: the first one (contrary to my results with 8/04) caused cdrw -i to barf on my Sun-blade (with an external plextor burner). I also tried to simply unwrap them using lofiadm, mount and find ... cpio. Slice 1 (referenced by a symlink) is supposed to contain the Tools/Boot, but was nowhere to be found. I'm quite certain that my blog notes (internal, sorry, can't share, much legal gobbledygook could follow, I will spare you) were sufficient, but it simply didn't work the way I recall doing this last time. Any suggestions? Anyone else have a different experience with the ISO images after download? Should I (shudder) ask one of the Windows folks here with a burner and commercial software for an assist?

Posted by Mark Michael on November 02, 2004 at 12:28 PM EST #

The image is actually a number of slices, so unfortunately you can't look at it with lofi (yet - I logged an rfe on this some time ago).

I'm kind of surprised at it causing cdrw to barf, as I have not heard of this happenning to anyone else.

I'd be going with finding the simplest way to get the image cut. What I was doing for a while was using a set of cdrws (as against a set of cdrs), so I didn't end up with a new set of coasters every few weeks. It also mitigates buring coasters. I was doing this on the Solaris notebook with no trouble at all.

Posted by Alan Hargreaves on November 02, 2004 at 12:46 PM EST #

Yup, I also tried to use cdrw on the 8/04 ISO again, just in case something else in my setup had become frobozzed. Worked perfectly. Mounted all six slices in vold no sweat. cdrw still barfs on a zer0-length message. I would guess that the VTOC is fried, slice 1 is non-existent, or both. Thanks for noticing my post! The wonders of the 'Net ... :-)

Posted by Mark Michael on November 03, 2004 at 05:20 AM EST #

apologied for following up my own post, just to clarify ... cdrw _works_ on 8/04 perfectly, but _fails_ every time on 10/04 vol 1, works perfectly on 10/04 vol2, etc.

Posted by Mark Michael on November 03, 2004 at 05:21 AM EST #

Problem solved ... let's just say that I'm a complete idiot. It's working now. ... sorry to have taken up bandwidth in my desperation.

Posted by Mark Michael on November 06, 2004 at 07:02 AM EST #

Will Solaris X contain any updates to Xprint, too? The Solaris 9 version is quite poor compared to the version in X11R6.8.0 - no OpenGL support, no font download, etc.

Posted by Julien on November 25, 2004 at 12:39 AM EST #

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