What's new for Solaris 9?

Solaris 9 has just been released for SPARC (5/2002), but not Intel.
Solaris 9 adds ssh, IPSec with IKE key exchange, /dev/[u]random (RNG),
secure LDAP, improved thread performance,
several Open Source software updates,
and new system administrator tools.
Details are at

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/

Update (4/2002): Sun is reconsidering it's decision to halt Intel development.
See

www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/04/19/020419hnsecretsix.xml,

www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO70339,00.html,
and

http://computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO70633,00.html

Update (1/2002): Solaris 9 will be released later in 2002 for SPARC only.
Solaris 9 may be released for Intel later.
This is due to Sun's cutbacks during the current recession.
Solaris 9 (for both Intel and SPARC) is available now in beta.
John Groenveld has organized an online petition to release Solaris 9 for
Intel at
http://www.save-solaris-x86.org/

Update (10/2001): Solaris 9 will have the ability to write data or audio CDs,
Live Upgrade (upgrading while the system is running),
resource monitoring and control,
and the ability to install only a minimum set of Solaris features.

Update (7/2001):
According to
an an article in CRN,
Graham Lovell, director of Solaris Marketing at Sun says:
"Solaris 9,
which will be released in beta testing by the end of this summer [2001],
will incorporate improved availability and manageability features for its
new UltraSparc III-based line of servers,
optimization code for Oracle's middleware,
updated Linux libraries and optimization code that exploits the
processing power and architectural enhancements of the Starcat server."

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