Thursday, September 13, 2007

Another "top new features" list

For Solaris 10 8/06, a Sun blogger lists these as the most important enhancements:
  • Solaris Live Upgrade and Solaris Containers
  • Improved integration of Resource Mgmt into Solaris 10 containers
  • Solaris Containers for Linux Applications (BrandZ)
  • IP Instances LAN and VLAN separation for Zones
  • Packet Filtering Hook API/Firewalling for Solaris Zones
  • DHCPv6 Client
  • Quagga routing daemon
  • Large Send Offload
  • NEMO Enhancements (including Multi-MAC address support)
  • IPsec Tunnel Reform
  • IP Filter Update
  • Key Management Framework
  • Kerberos V5Protocol APIs Exposed
  • PostgreSQL 8.2 for Solaris
  • Improvements to ZFS file system
  • Firefox 2.0 Browser and Thunderbird 2.0 Email client
  • DTrace enhancements
  • SMF Enhancements to Routing Management
  • Predictive Self-Healing for PCI Express on x64 Systems
  • SPARC CPU Power Management
  • Scheduler enhancements for CMT processors
  • iSCSI Target mode
  • SIP Stack
  • Single Hosts File
  • Coherent Console
  • Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS)
  • Service Tags

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