What's new for Solaris 8 Intel?

What's new for Solaris 8 Intel?

Here's the more-notable improvements:

  • ISA bus support is removed for most ISA devices (use PCI!).
  • EISA bus support is removed (use PCI!)
  • USB support
  • ACPI support
  • The 8G boot disk limit for ATAPI disks is removed.
  • Sun added Pyramid/Siemens-Nixdorf's Reliability, Availability and
    Scalability (RAS) functionality and Reliant UNIX clustering and scalability
    into Solaris.
    NCR added MP-RAS (diagnostics, remote support...).
    Fujitsu added improved RAS and advanced diagnostics.
  • X11 R6.4 (Xinerama)
  • IPv6 (128-bit IP addresses)
  • Perl 5.00503
  • Java 2
  • gzip and lots of other GNU utilities
  • New drivers, such as for Adaptec Ultra2





This is a partial list.
For more details, see _What's New in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment_ at
http://docs.Sun.COM/.


Some people don't like the "Java Webstart Installation."
(which actually has nothing to do with the web!).
However, you can still boot and install with the "Software 1 of 2" disk.


Solaris 8 Intel removed the 8GB limit on IDE hard drives
(SSCI has no such limit).


Also, Solaris 8 requires 64MB or the installation will abort
(the documentation is out-of-date).


[Thanks to Igor Sobrado Delgado, Thomas Tornblom, William Malloy,
Paul Carver, and Alan Coopersmith]



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