June 1, 2009 at 17:58OpenSolaris 2009.06 Release
June 1, the International Children's Day, has arrived. But I think this is not interesting for us. For one unit, Sun Microsystems planned two events: the beginning of the CommunityOne West conference and the official release of the next Solaris-based open system release - OpenSolaris 2009.06 .
Owners of an already installed system can be updated using the command
pkg image-update, everyone else can download the iso image of the installation disk . Desktop:
- FireFox has been updated to version 3.1 beta 3.
- Simplified work with TimeSlider. Added integration with the Nautilus file manager for convenient file recovery.
- Added support for Codeina allowing you to pump out audio and video codecs. Also added media center Elisa.
- Added TimeTracker - a program that allows you to make plans.
- Updated PackageManager. Improved overall performance, added the ability to add SSL protected repositories via the GUI, added support for installing from the web in one click (1-Click web install).
Development Tools:
- Juicer, a web-based automatic package building service, was launched to help porting software.
- Visual Panels - administration panels: SMF Services, Apache, Date & Time, Coreadm.
- Added Dtrace probes for PHP, MySQL.
- Added JavaFX SDK support for the first time.
- Git version control system added to the repository.
Networking:
- Many improvements to the ClearView project.
- Added support for Crossbow - a platform for network virtualization.
- Added iSCSI support for COMSTAR.
- Many improvements to the CIFS service, including IP access restriction, ACL, caching.
Hardware Support:
- For the first time, official support for the SPARC platform has been added.
- Added a lot of drivers.
- Added full support for Intel's new processor family, code-named Nehalem (Xeon 5500).
And lastly, I propose to get acquainted with two screencasts: