New Features in the Solaris 8 10/01 Release

The Solaris 8 10/01 What's New Supplement briefly describes all features released in all Solaris 8 updates.

The following list identifies features that are new in this Solaris 8 10/01 release.

New Installation Features

• Solaris Live Upgrade

• IA: PXE network boot

New Features for Desktop Users

• Stereo viewing in sdtaudio

• Added support for play-only and record-only devices

• Energy Star standards

New Features for System Administrators

• PPPoE addition to Solaris PPP 4.0

• Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR) 3.0

• USB support and USB audio support

New Features for Software Developers

• SPARC: Application interface to Remote Shared Memory on clusters

• Frame Buffer Power Management

• Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition v. 1.3.1