Solaris 10 Update 8/07 Available Today - Enhanced Virtualization, Networking, and Database Capabilities |
| Published: September 11, 2007, 7:34 pm |
| Tags: software, java open source news |
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Come and get it: The latest update to the Solaris Operating System (OS) - Solaris 10 8/07 - is available to download today. Rich Green, Sun's Executive Vice President, Software, discusses the news in this three and a half minute podcast, including the customer pains the update addresses, and a review of new features and enhancements. Some of the highlights of the new update:Solaris Containers for Linux Applications, enabling Linux applications to run unmodified on Solaris 10.PostgreSQL 8.2, now fully integrated with Solaris, with support for DTrace probes, online index builds, and improved warm standby capabilities.Improved Network Performance, including a new Large Send Offload feature for hardware-accelerated data transfer on supported NICs, IP instances and MAC addresses for individual containers, and open source Quagga routing software.There's more. Sun is setting new price/performance world records with the open source PostgreSQL 8.2 database. Solaris 10 is [ Full article ] |
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