[ug-crosug] Solaris Express Developer Edition updated

[Harry J Foxwell, PhD]

For those interested in the latest build of Solaris "NV":

*What's new?
*

    * It's based upon the latest builds of OpenSolaris including:
          o Solaris (Solaris Express Community Edition build 64a) /UPDATED/
          o Solaris Containers - better integration with resource
            management capabilities
          o ZFS - GZIP compression supported, iSCSI integration,
            recursive snapshots
          o Gnome 2.16
          o Firefox 2.0 Browser /UPDATED/
          o Thunderbird2.0 with the new Lightning calendar module NEW
          o Evolution 2.8.1.1
          o StarOffice 8 <http://www.sun.com/staroffice> with product
            update 6 office productivity suite /UPDATED/
    * It's targeted to developers who have X64 platforms.
    * It has a simplified installation procedure which pre-installs
      Sun's suite of developer tools including:
          o NEW Sun Studio 12 C, C++ and Fortran compilers
            <http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/>
          o NetBeans 5.5: <http://www.netbeans.org/products/index.html>
                + IDE
                + Enterprise Pack including the GlassFish Application
                  Server <http://glassfish.java.net/>
                + Profiler NEW
                + Visual Web Pack NEW
          o Java Platform, Standard Edition 6
            <http://java.sun.com/javase/6/>
          o PostgreSQL 8.2.4 <http://www.sun.com/postgresql> NEW
    * Plus a variety of open source tools that are either not in Solaris
      10 or updated relative to the versions in Solaris 10. See below.
      <http://developers.sun.com/sxde/features.jsp#newpackages>

    * *NEW Wireless Chipsets Supported:*
          o Intel Pro/Wireless 2100de
          o Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG
          o Intel Pro/Wireless 3945
          o Wireless WPA Supplicant
          o Agere 11b and PrismII 11b
          o Cisco Aironet 340/350
    * *NEW Automatic Network Configuration*
          o This release includes the first putback of the OpenSolaris
            project codenamed Network Automagic
            <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/phase0/> a project
            to automatically configure active network interfaces.