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Solaris 9 Solaris 9 8/03 incorporates the
GNOME 2.0 desktop, enhancing usability by making Solaris look and
feel just like Linux.
The GNOME 2.0 desktop provides an alternative to the Common Desktop
Environment (CDE). It provides a familiar environment that enables
users to easily interact with the applications and documents on
their desktop. GNOME 2.0 desktop includes:
- An advanced file manager
- A comprehensive online help system
- Software utilities and accessories
- Panels for launching applications and managing application
windows and multiple workspaces
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The Solaris 9 OS 8/03 enables even higher
levels of data scalability, with UNIX File Systems (UFS) 16x larger
than before. This release provides support for multiterabyte UFS on
systems that run a 64-bit Solaris kernel. Previously, UFS was
limited to approximately 1 terabyte on both 64-bit and 32-bit
systems.
Features of multiterabyte UFS include:
- Creating UFS to a maximum of 16 Tbytes in size.
- Creating a file system that is less than 16 Tbytes, which can
later be increased to 16 Tbytes.
- Creating multiterabyte file systems on physical disks, Solaris
Volume Manager's logical volumes, and Veritas' VxVM logical
volumes.
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Solaris Live Upgrade provides a method of
upgrading a system while the system continues to operate.
Improvements to the Live Upgrade feature enable faster, easier
upgrades including conversion of Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)
volumes to Solaris Volume Manager. Solaris Volume Manager satisfies
the needs of most customers who do not need heterogeneous access to
volumes.
New features in Solaris Live Upgrade 2.1 provide the following
functionality:
- Solaris Live Upgrade uses Solaris Volume Manager technology to
create a duplicate boot environment that contains file systems with
RAID-1 volumes (mirrors). The mirror provides data redundancy for
any file systems including the root (/) file system. With the
lucreate command, you can create mirrored file systems that contain
up to three submirrors.
- JumpStart installation method can be used to create an empty
boot environment when the Solaris Operating System is installed.
The empty boot environment can then be populated with a Solaris
Flash archive for later use.
- When creating a boot environment with the lucreate command,
some files and directories that would normally be copied from the
original boot environment can now be excluded. If a directory is
excluded, you can also include specified files and subdirectories
under that directory.
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BIND 8.3.3 is integrated in the Solaris 9 8/03
release.
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Multidata transmit (MDT) enables the network
stack to send more than one packet at a time to the network device
driver during transmission. Enabling this feature reduces the
per-packet processing costs by improving the host CPU utilization
or network throughput.
The multi-data transmit feature is only effective for device
drivers that support this feature and is for SPARC platforms
only.
The following parameter must be enabled in the /etc/system file to
use the MDT parameter:
set ip:ip_use_dl_cap = 0x1
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Solaris smart card interfaces are a set of
public interfaces for Smart Card Terminals. Card terminal vendors
can implement these interfaces in a user-level shared library to
provide device-level support for their smart card terminals in
Solaris. The set of Solaris smart card terminal interfaces is based
on card terminal interfaces that are available as part of the Linux
Smartcard framework. Card terminal support libraries from Linux can
be ported to Solaris with minimum effort.
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Solaris Unicode locales now support the
Unicode Version 3.2, which introduces 1016 new characters.
The UTF-8 character representation has been changed to a more
secure form as specified in the Unicode Version 3.2. This feature
implements the more secure UTF-8 character representation, form,
and byte sequences in UTF-8 related iconv code conversions. This
feature also implements all OS-level multibyte and wide character
functions.
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Solaris OS now supports Java Messaging Service
(JMS) applications are now available on Solaris x86 platforms. Sun
ONE Message Queue is the JMS provider in this release.
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The Solaris IPQoS feature now includes the
user selector, which supplements the existing uid selector. The
user selector enables you to specify a user name or userID as
criteria in a filter clause in the ipqosconf file. Previously, the
uid selector only accepted a userID as a value.
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Enhancements to the audit features reduce
noise in the trail, and enable administrators to use XML scripting
to parse the trail. Enhancements include:
- Public files are no longer audited for read-only events. The
public policy flag for the auditconfig command controls whether
public files are audited. By not auditing public objects, the audit
trail is greatly reduced. Attempts to read sensitive files are
therefore easier to monitor.
- The praudit command has an additional output format, XML. The
XML format enables the output to be read in a browser, and provides
source for SML scripting for reports.
- The default set of audit classes has been restructured. Audit
metaclasses provide support for finer-grained audit classes.
- The bsmconv command no longer disables the use of the Stop-A
key. The Stop-A event is now audited to maintain security.
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The Xscreensaver program locks your monitor
screen after a period of inactivity in order to prevent others from
gaining access to your system session. Xscreensaver supports a
variety of animation displays that can be used while the screen is
locked. This program is used in the GNOME 2.0 desktop.
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