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What’s New
New features in Solaris 10 are based on real-world input from Sun's customers and the OpenSolaris community.
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 Partial feature |
 Existing feature set |
* Features with an asterisk have been added or enhanced in an update. Mouse over for details. |
Enhanced in Solaris 10 10/08
Enhanced in Solaris 10 5/08
Enhanced in Solaris 10 8/07
Enhanced in Solaris 10 1/06
Enhanced in Solaris 10 3/05
Enhanced in Solaris 10 6/06
Enhanced in Solaris 10 11/06
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Availability |
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Solaris 9 |
Solaris 8 |
Solaris 7 |
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Intel Xeon CPU/Memory Fault Management |
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AMD64 CPU/Memory Fault Management |
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Predictive Self Healing : PCI Express support |
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Predictive Self Healing: Solaris Fault Manager |
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Predictive Self Healing: Solaris Service Manager |
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Predictive Self-Healing: SNMP Support |
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Logical Domains Fault Management |
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Sun Fire X4500 SATA Drive Fault Management |
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UltraSPARC III / IV / IV+ CPU/Memory Fault Mgmt |
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UltraSPARC T1/T2 CPU/Memory Fault Management |
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Driver Fault Injection |
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Sun Cluster Software Framework |
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Faster Reboot |
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System Crash Dump Utility |
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NFS Client Failover |
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Dynamic Reconfiguration |
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Data Management |
Solaris 10 |
Solaris 9 |
Solaris 8 |
Solaris 7 |
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ZFS boot |
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ZFS as a root file system |
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iSCSI Target support |
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ZFS volume as a Solaris iSCSI target device |
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Solaris ZFS Double Parity (RAIDZ) |
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Hot Spares for ZFS Storage Pool Devices |
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Solaris ZFS File System Clone Promotion |
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Solaris ZFS Recursive Snapshots |
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Solaris ZFS Upgrade Storage Pools |
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Solaris ZFS File System Monitoring Tool |
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Solaris ZFS File System clear zpool device errors |
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Solaris ZFS File System recover destroyed zpools |
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Solaris ZFS Support for Compact NFSv4 ACL format |
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Solaris ZFS File System zpool offline |
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Solaris ZFS integration with Fault Manager |
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Solaris ZFS file system |
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Solaris ZFS Web-based management |
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iSCSI |
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iSCSI logout support |
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iSCSI Multiple session target (MS/T) support |
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NFSv4 |
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Solaris Volume Manager: Dist set import / export |
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Cluster Volume Manager |
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EFI Labels |
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Solaris Volume Manager: Multiterabyte Volumes |
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Solaris Volume Manager: Top-down Volume Creation |
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Multiterabyte UFS File Systems |
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UFS Snapshots |
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Solaris Volume Manager: Soft Disk Partitions |
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Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager Software |
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UFS Logging |
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Network File System |
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Install/Upgrade |
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Solaris Live Upgrade: Container support |
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GRUB bootloader (x86 platform) |
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Solaris JumpStart Software: Flash Archive Support |
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Solaris JumpStart Software: Mirrored Volume Support |
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WAN Boot (SPARC platform) |
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Sun Update Manager/smpatch |
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Solaris Flash Software |
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Networking/Interoperability |
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SIP |
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Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) client-side support |
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Open Printing API (PAPI) commands |
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VNC Client/Server support |
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Quagga routing suite |
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Reliable Datagram Sockets |
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Large Send Offload |
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Multi-MAC address support |
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Source-Filtered Multicasting |
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OSPFv2 and BGP-4 Routing Protocols |
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SCTP |
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Sendmail: MILTER Support |
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NFSv4 |
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Directory and Application Server Integration |
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Network Layer Redundancy |
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RIP v2 |
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Bundled GCC |
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Samba |
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Mobile IP |
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IPMP |
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Solaris WBEM Services |
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IPv6 |
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Java Platform Support |
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DHCP |
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SNMP |
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Network Time Protocol |
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TCP Large Windows |
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Sendmail |
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Directory Services |
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Standards Support |
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FTP |
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DNS/BIND |
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Linux Compatibility |
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Observability |
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Solaris 7 |
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Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) |
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DTrace Java support |
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Kernel Modular Debugger |
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Per-thread Monitoring in truss/pstack/pflags |
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Java Stack Frame Monitoring Tool |
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Libumem: Memory Debugging Features |
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Intelligent Platform Monitoring Interface (IPMI) |
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Gcore Enhancements |
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/proc: Open File Name Information |
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Patch Analysis Engine |
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Process Accounting and Statistics |
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Modular Debugger |
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Coreadm |
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/proc: Watchpoints |
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Sun Validation Test Suite (SunVTS) |
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Performance |
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Intel NUMA support |
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Intel SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2 support |
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AMD SSE4A support |
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UltraSPARC T2 Shared Contexts |
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Intel CPUID support |
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Intel MONITOR/MWAIT support |
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Network (UDP) Performance |
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Network (TCP/IP) Performance |
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Improved Perf. with Large #s of Network Interfaces |
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Event Ports |
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Atomic libc Operations |
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InfiniBand |
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10 Gigabit Ethernet |
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Network Layer 7 Cache (NL7C) |
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Hyperthreading Support |
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Intel SSE/SSE2 Instruction Optimizations |
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Libumem Memory Allocator |
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Threading Library Improvement |
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Memory Placement Optimization (MPO) |
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Multiple Page Size Support (MPSS) |
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Large Page and Giant Page support |
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TCP Multidata Transmit Support |
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Chip Multithreading (CMT) Support |
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Remote Shared Memory API (RSMAPI) |
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Network Cache and Accelerator (NCA) - this one is replaced by Network 7 Layer Cache (N7LC). |
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mkfs Performance |
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Page Coloring |
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Enhanced DNLC |
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CPU Performance Counters |
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Large Concurrent Process (100,000+) Support |
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Solaris 64-bit Computing Environment |
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Platform Choice |
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PCI Express support |
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SATA support |
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IEEE 1394-based digital camera driver |
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AGPgart driver for x86 systems |
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64-bit AMD64 & Intel EM64T Support |
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Certification Test Suite |
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Guaranteed Compatibility |
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Industry-Leading ISV Support |
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SPARC Platform Support |
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X86 Platform Support |
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Security |
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UltraSPARC T2 ECC acceleration |
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Solaris Trusted Extensions |
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Secure By Default Networking |
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Solaris IP Filter IPv6 support |
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SSL acceleration |
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Solaris Cryptographic Framework Library |
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Password History, Lockout, Complexity Checking |
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Non-Login Accounts |
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Solaris Basic Audit and Reporting Tool (BART) |
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Process Rights Management |
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Secure Execution: Signed ELF Objects |
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Secure Execution: Verification and Signing Tools |
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Solaris IP Filter Firewall |
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OpenSSL, PKCS#11, NSS, JCE |
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SASL |
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SPNEGO |
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Per-Zone Auditing |
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Solaris Secure Shell Software |
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IPSec With Internet Key Exchange (IKE) |
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TCP Wrappers |
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Secure LDAP |
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Flexible Installation |
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IKE |
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Extensible Password Encryption |
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Random Number Generator |
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Extended File Attributes |
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Solaris Smart Card Framework |
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GSS-API |
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Solaris Role Based Access Control (RBAC) Software |
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Kerberos |
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Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAMs) |
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Mitigation of Buffer Overflow Attacks |
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RPSEC-GSS |
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Usability |
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AMD64 Power Management |
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Intel 64 Power Management |
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Flash Player |
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Pidgin |
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Locale Creator |
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Traditional Chinese Chewing input support |
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PDA Support |
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PostgreSQL |
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Automated system registration |
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RealPlayer |
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Sun Update Connection |
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Sun Java Desktop System Integration |
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Sun Java Web Console |
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Webmin |
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Solaris Web Start Wizards Software |
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Sun Management Center Software |
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SPARC Power Management |
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Perl |
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Accessibility |
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Globalization |
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162 Locales |
121 Locales |
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Virtualization |
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Xen-based paravirtualization guest support for network and disk |
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Solaris Containers update on attach |
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Solaris Containers on a ZFS root file system |
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Logical Domains support for disk and network Dynamic Reconfiguration |
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CPU caps |
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IP instances |
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Solaris Containers for Linux Applications |
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LAN and VLAN Separation for Non-Global Zones |
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Container rename and move |
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Container clone |
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Container migrate |
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Configurable privileges for Containers |
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Logical Domains for CoolThreads Servers |
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Solaris Containers: Zones |
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Solaris Containers: Dynamic System V IPC Controls |
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Solaris Containers: Resource Capping (Phys. Mem. Ctl.) |
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Solaris Containers: Solaris Resource Manager |
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Solaris Containers: IP Quality of Service (IPQoS) |
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Solaris Containers: Tasks, Projects, and Accounting |
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Reconfiguration Coordination Manager (RCM) |
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Solaris Containers: Dynamic Resource Pools |
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Automated Dynamic Reconfiguration |
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Dynamic System Domains (DSD) |
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