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Solaris Features Available from SX

  • Netscape 7
  • New X Windowing features
  • Gnome 2.0 desktop
  • System V IPC resource controls
  • Physical memory control using a new resource-capping daemon
  • Extended accounting for IPQoS
  • USB 2.0 support, and USB removable media support
  • Dynamic intimate shared memory large-page support (for databases; SPARC only)
  • Memory placement optimization (on SunFire servers; SPARC only)
  • Improved UFS logging performance
  • Unicode version 3.2
  • Locale administrator for adding and removing locales at the command line
  • A new autofs configuration file
  • Multi-terabyte volume and disk support (64-bit SPARC only)
  • Up to 16-TB UFS file systems (64-bit SPARC only; individual files are still limited to 1 TB)
  • Devfs dynamically attaches and detaches device entries in /devices
  • NCA support of multiple instances of the Web server
  • IPv6 6to4 router and packet tunneling of IPv4 over IPv6
  • NFS services are only started when needed, rather than only at boot time
  • Sun ONE integration and availability
  • Routeadm -- routing administration command
  • Sendmail version 8.12 using TCP wrappers
  • BIND version 8.4.2
  • Availability of a reduced networking software group for selection during installation of more secure systems
  • Solaris Product Registry added features and a command-line interface
  • Solaris Flash differential archives and configuration scripts
  • Customized contents of Solaris Flash archives
  • Solaris Live Upgrade 2.1
  • Ability to boot and install software over a WAN
  • Improved DHCP implementation
  • Solaris Management Console Patches tool can now analyze, download, and install recommended patches
  • Improved System V IPC configuration
  • Signed packages and patches for more secure download
  • NIS to LDAP transition service
  • Top-down volume creation in Solaris Volume Manager
  • Systems Management Agent implements SNMPv1, v2c, and v3
  • Event ports for generating and collecting events from disjoint sources
  • New atomic operations API included in libc
  • WBEM includes many updates
  • Solaris Privileges for programmers allows applications to be written that need specific rights, rather than superuser rights
  • Smartcard interfaces and middleware APIs
  • Basic Audit and Reporting Tool (BART) can compare contents of a system over time or audit an installed package for changes
  • Kerberos enhancements
  • FTP client and server enhancements
  • PAM enhancements
  • Auditing enhancements
  • Password history checking