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What's New in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
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Preface
Chapter 1 What's New at a Glance
Key Features of the Solaris 8 Release
Features Added in Previous Solaris Releases
Solaris 7 Release
Solaris 2.6 Release
Chapter 2 What's New: A Closer Look
IPv6
Native LDAP
Java 2 SDK for Solaris
Installation and Management
Solaris Web Start Enhanced Installation CD
Booting a System Over the Network With DHCP
IA: Boot Partition in Solaris 8
IA: CD-ROM Boot
DHCP Manager
IA: Large Disk Support
Solaris WBEM Services
Support for DNS in System Identification Utilities
Support for IPv6 in the System Identification Utilities
Unlimited Number of Pseudo-terminals Available
Reading Documentation on the Solaris 8 Documentation CD
Product Registry
Networking
SPARC: InterDomain Networks
IPsec for IPv4
IPv6 NFS/RPC Compliant
LLC2 Protocol
NIS/NIS+ Over IPv6 Transports
sendmail 8.9.3
Service Location Protocol
Solaris STREAMS Framework Enhancements
Network Time Protocol (NTP)
File System Enhancements
Universal Disk Format File System
NFS Server Logging
IA: XMEM Support
WebNFS JavaBeans Component
Deferred Access Time Updates on UFS File Systems
Diagnostic and Availability Enhancements
Improved Core File Management
The coreadm command
Examining Core Files With Proc Tools
Improved Device Configuration (devfsadm )
Improved System Error Messages
Modular Debugger
Remote Console Messaging
TCP/IP Internal Trace Support
Performance and Scalability Enhancements
IA: Added Support for PAE Mode
apptrace
SPARC: busstat
Faster Boot for Servers
New Alternative to poll() Interface
prstat
IA: Xeon Enhancements
Security Enhancements
Solaris Smart Cards
Default File System and Directory Permissions
Role-Based Access Control
Centralized Administration of User Audit Events
Sun Enterprise Authentication Mechanism (Kerberos V5) Client Support
Realtime Systems Enhancements
High Resolution Timers
User-level Priority Inheritance
Common Desktop Environment Desktop Enhancements
PDA Support
Hot Key Editor
Java Media Framework
SPARC: Audio Mixer
SPARC: PC Launcher 1.0
Netscape Application Launcher
Print Client Enhancements
SDTImage Enhancements
Smart Card Support
ToolTips
X11R6.4 Support
Extended Control Panel
Web Services
Java Plug-in
Netscape Communicator 4.7
Solaris Network Cache and Accelerator
Apache Web Server
Printing
Print Naming Enhancement
Solaris Print Manager
Language Support
Universal Language Coverage
Improved Language Installation and Setup
Expanded Unicode Support
Customer-Extensible Codeset Conversion (geniconvtbl)
Improved Data Interoperability
New Locales Added
Documentation
AB2 1.4.2 AnswerBook2 Server
Reference Manual Reorganization
SPARC: Audio Mixer
Software Developer Environment
64-bit SPARC: 64-bit KCMS Libraries
Always Ready Power Management
The cpustat and cputrack Commands
Extensions to Runtime Link Auditing
Perl 5
Role-Based Access Control for Developers
strftime() Function Update
Secure Path Name Change From /usr/lib to /usr/lib/secure
Dynamic String Token Support
Alternate One-level Libthread
Updated DDI Interfaces for Cluster-aware Device Drivers
8-bit Visual Support
IA Hardware
IA: ACPI
IA: PCI Hot-Plug Support
IA: Universal Serial Bus Support for Keyboards and Mouse Devices
IA: X Server Video Driver Enhancement
IA SCSI Drivers
cadp Driver Enhancements
ncrs Device Driver Enhancements
symhisl Device Driver
Other Software
Early Access Software
Freeware
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