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Whats new for Solaris 8 Intel?

April 26, 2017Intel Solaris

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Whats new for Solaris 8 Intel?

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Here’s the more-notable improvements: * ISA and EISA device support is removed (use PCI!). * USB support * ACPI support * The 8G boot disk limit for ATAPI disks is removed. * Sun will add Pyramid/Siemens-Nixdorf’s Reliability, Availability and Scalability (RAS) functionality and Reliant UNIX clustering and scalability into Solaris. NCR will add MP-RAS (diagnostics, remote support…). Fujitsu will add 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