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Large volume support enhances Solaris Volume
Manager. With this support, the Solaris Volume Manager can create,
manage, and delete large (>1Tbyte) RAID 0 (stripe), RAID 1
(mirror), RAID 5, and soft partition volumes. Solaris system
administrators can now create and use devices larger than 1 Tbyte
in size. In addition, large volume support enables Solaris Volume
Manager to construct volumes on large or EFI-labeled logical unit
numbers (LUNs). Note that Solaris Volume Manager large volume
support is not available for systems that run a 32-bit Solaris
kernel.
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Reconfiguration Coordination Manager (RCM)
support adds to Solaris Volume Manager the ability to respond
appropriately to dynamic reconfiguration (DR) requests. This
addition ensures that removal of devices under Solaris Volume
Manager control is blocked with an appropriate warning until the
devices are no longer in use. This warning prevents system
administrators from accidentally removing active volumes from a
DR-configured system. Note that this support is only for 64-bit
systems.
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The Solaris Flash installation feature enables
you to use a single reference installation of the Solaris Operating
System on a system, which is called the master system. Then you can
replicate that installation on a number of systems, which are
called clone systems. The installation is an initial Solaris Flash
installation that overwrites all files on the clone system.
This feature allows faster, easier system configuration and
management, especially for sites with large numbers of horizontally
scaled systems. This then leads to cost savings from both less
sysadmin time needed per system and due to systems having less
downtime.
The Solaris Flash installation feature provides several new
enhancements:
- A Solaris Flash installation can now update a clone system with
minor changes. If you have a clone system and want to update it
with minor changes, you can create a differential archive that
contains only the differences between two images, the original
master image and an updated master image. When you update a clone
system with a differential archive, only the files that are
specified in the differential archive are changed. Use the custom
JumpStart? installation method to install a differential archive on
a clone system, or you can use Solaris Live Upgrade to install a
differential archive on a duplicate boot environment.
- Special scripts can now be run for configuration of the master
of clone or can be run to validate the archive.
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The prodreg command has been updated to
include functionality that is similar to the Solaris Product
Registry graphical user interface. This feature saves time for
system administrators and the results can be scripted when they are
done. The following prodreg subcommands on the command line or in
the administration scripts are now available:
- browse
- info
- unregister
- uninstall
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Internet Key Exchange (IKE) is the digital
certificate exchange and negotiation part of the IPsec/IKE suite
for encryption/authentication of network packets. IKE algorithms
are computationally expensive, particularly in the Phase 1
exchange. Systems that handle a large number of exchanges can use a
Sun? Crypto Accelerator 1000 card to handle the public key
operations. The operations are offloaded to the card. The
offloading accelerates encryption and reduces demands on operating
system resources. The key benefit is faster and cheaper networks
since the same server can now handle more IKE connections per
second or do the same number but with lower computation
overhead.
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Stack Check APIs allow for advanced
interaction with stack-checking compiler support. Stack-checking
compiler support is available in Sun ONE Studio 7.0. These APIs
allow developers to write applications that are more reliable,
especially for very large datasets.
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You can use the Update option of the Solaris
Management Console's Patches Tool or the smpatch update command to
analyze, download, and install recommended patches from the
SunSolve Online program. The update feature was previously only
available for systems that run Solaris 2.6, Solaris 7, or Solaris 8
releases.
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The 6to4 Router is a mechanism for IPv6 sites
to communicate with each other over an IPv4 network without
explicit tunnel setup, and for them to communicate with other
native IPv6 domains via relay routers.
IPv6 networks can now transfer packets over Internet Protocol
Version 4 (IPv4) networks by configuring one or more routers to
support a 6to4 tunnel. System administrators can use 6to4 tunnels
as a transitional method for migrating their networks from IPv4 to
IPv6.
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libumem is a user-mode (non-kernel mode)
memory allocator library. The libumem project delivers fast,
scalable memory allocation to user-level applications, in the form
of a standard shared library. libumem has features that enable you
to debug memory leaks and other aberrations that involve memory
usage.
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Software support for three additional
keyboards has been added to the Solaris 9 4/03 release: Estonian
keyboard Type 6, French Canadian keyboard Type 6, and Polish
programmer's keyboard Type 5. This software support gives users in
Canada, Estonia, and Poland greater flexibility for keyboard input
by modifying standard U.S. Keyboard layouts to their own language
needs.
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Netscape 7.0 for the Solaris Operating System
is now available. The latest major browser released by Netscape
Corporation has fast and efficient web browsing tools; fully
customer integrated search capabilities; integrated mail and
instant messaging enhancements; and privacy that is more secure.
This allows for faster access and page loading of web sites and
mail activities, increased productivity with streamlined and
efficient browsing, and flexibility for enterprise and mobile
users.
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Input support for Indian regional language
keyboards has been added to the Solaris? Operating System. Indic
language users can type Indic language characters by using their
preferred keyboard layouts in the Solaris OS.
Speakers of Indian regional languages will now be able to input,
display and print characters from the supported Indic scripts
within any language of Unicode locale environments.
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Unicode locales in the Solaris OS are capable
of supporting scripts of various languages. This feature adds 7
additional Indian regional scripts to to complement the Hindu
support (named devanagari). The supported Indic scripts are now
supported:
- Bengali
- Gurmukhi
- Gujarati
- Tamil
- Malayalam
- Telugu
- Kannada
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Freetype 2.1.x is an open source library that
provides a simple application programming interface (API) to access
font content in a uniform way, independently of the file format.
Additionally, some format-specific APIs can be used to access
special data in the font file. This will enable developers to more
easily change and manipulate their font files.
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Wubi is the most popular glyph encoding input
method in China. Its primary advantage is rapid keyboard input of
Chinese characters. The Wubi input method (IM) is widely used in
China. The encoding rule for Wubi IM is based on the radical or
stroke shape of Chinese characters. Chinese speaking users will be
able to rapidly type Chinese characters through a standard keyboard
rather than through slower, phonetic-based input methods.
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XevIE is a low-level interface that intercepts
all the keyboard and mouse events so that these events can be read,
consumed, or modified as needed. Developers that produce software
for users with disabilities will be able to provide better
integration of assistive technologies, particularly with the new
GNOME desktop for Solaris OS.
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The following new freeware packages have been
added or revised in the Solaris 9 4/03 release:
- libxml2 2.4.16 - A standard for building tag-based structured
documents or data
- libxslt 1.0.19 - An XML language to define transformation for
XML
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Latest version of Java available.
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Drivers:
Davicom Fast Ethernet Driver DM9102A chip version -9 (dmfe)
added
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