[ug-dfwosug] Solaris 10 5/08 Released

[Bob Netherton]

Since it's been quiet on some of these discussion lists :-)


I thought I would take this opportunity to let you know that Solaris
10 5/08 (aka Solaris 10 update 5) was released a few weeks ago.   In
April, if you can believe that :-)

The most important features of Solaris 10 5/08 are

- resource caps for limiting CPU usage by non-global zones.  This will
allow you to oversubscribe CPU for your zones, but limit the amount
of CPU consumed by any zone.  Zone caps are expressed in 1/100's of
a CPU (per cent).

- x86 power management (Intel Speedstep and AMD PowerNow!)

- platform support for some new server products

- patch integration
    see http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-4078/gbfdy?a=view 
and http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-4078/apa-sparc-23587?a=view

- Staroffice 8

- Flash Version 9 (so I can now follow yahoo sports gamecast)

- Pidgin 2.0 for Internet Messaging

- p7zip

note: This is a big deal.  You will notice that the DVD download is
quite a bit smaller.   For Live Upgrade users, you will have to install
the p7zip package on your current BE or you will not be able to
decompress the packages and they will fail to install on the ABE.

- pgadmin III

Some other things to note.


- x86 memory requirements have been dropped to 386MB.  This will allow
installation on some small memory systems like laptops.

- EOL announcements for CDE (so much for those small memory systems)

- EOL announcement for Xsun (replaced by Xorg)



And there are other things.  Goto do docs.sun.com and see the "What's
New in Solaris" document for more details.



Bob