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Solaris 10 What's New

Additional Software

The following software have been added to the Solaris 10 6/06 release.

Watchdog Timeout

This additional software is new in the Solaris 10 6/06 release.

The watchdog mechanism detects a system hang. The watchdog timeout is a timer that is continually reset by a user application while the operating system and user application are running. While the watchdog timer operates in application mode, an additional alarm function, Alarm 3, is available to generate alarms for critical problems in the user application.

32-bit: RealPlayer for the Solaris OS

This additional software is new in the Solaris 10 6/06 release.

RealPlayer enables users to access and manage digital media. RealPlayer supports the following digital media formats:

The RealPlayer feature enhances the multimedia experience for Sun Java Desktop System (Java DS) users.

pilot-link Software

This Open Source software is new in the Solaris 10 6/06 release.

Pilot-link is a suite of tools that enables you to connect your Palm or PalmOS compatible handheld with Unix, Linux, and any other POSIX-compatible machine. pilot-link works with almost all PalmOS handhelds. To sync Palm devices with Solaris by USB port, pilot-link makes use of libusb. For further information, see the libusb(3LIB).

This release of pilot-link is based on pilot-link v0.12.0-pre4.

For further information, see pilot-xfer(1) in the /usr/sfw/man directory.

PostgreSQL for the Solaris OS

This additional software is new in the Solaris 10 6/06 release.

PostgreSQL is a relational database system provided in the open-source community. More than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture has earned PostgreSQL a reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness.

For more information, see http://www.postgresql.org.