[geeks] solaris 10 may 2008

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2008/04/18 Fri PM 02:28:17 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: [geeks] solaris 10 may 2008

>Changes for new Solaris, while not Earth shattering, are decent.
>
>One really important one: Solaris now supports SATA ATAPI for optical  
>devices, so at least one of you guys who had trouble should be OK now.
>
>It didn't cause trouble for me, but it should run faster on all  
>systems now because the system doesn't throttle back to older non-AHCI  
>modes.
>
>Also, Solaris now has official support for SATA NCQ.
>
>Support for the Broadcom NetXtreme chipset, so now those of us with  
>Dell T105's should not have to download a driver.
>
>Support for processor speed control with x86 CPUs.
>
>Zones can now limit CPU resources used by zones and projects.
>
>Solaris IPP can now talk to Linux and MacOS CUPS servers.
>
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>There a few other features, but really not a lot changed in this  
>release.  I was hoping for quite a bit more, but I understand the new  
>installers are really still not ready, and ZFS booting is still not  
>finished.
>
>I'm debating whether or not to go through the pain of re-installing  
>this weekend.

I think I'll install it this weekend... Thanks for the heads-up!

Lionel