OpenSolaris 2009.06 Release

It is June 1 - International Children's Day. But I think it's not that interesting for us. Sun Microsystems has scheduled two events for 1 Yuan: the start of the CommunityOne West conference and the official release of the next release of the Solaris-based open system - OpenSolaris 2009.06 .

Owners of an already installed system can be updated using the pkg image-update command, all others can download the iso image of the installation disk .


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Desktop:

• FireFox has been updated to version 3.1 beta 3.
• Simplified work with TimeSlider. Added integration with the Nautilus file manager for easy file recovery.
• Added support for Codeina allowing you to download audio and video codecs. Also added to the media center Elisa.
• Added TimeTracker - a program that allows you to make plans.
• Updated PackageManager. Improved overall performance, added the ability to add SSL secured repositories through the GUI, added support for one-click web installation (1-Click web install).

Development Tools:

• Juicer is launched - an automatic package building web service designed to help in porting software.
• Visual Panels - administration panels: SMF Services, Apache, Date & Time, Coreadm.
• Added Dtrace probes for PHP, MySQL.
• Newly added support for JavaFX SDK.
• The Git version control system has been added to the repository.

Work with the network:

• Many improvements in the project ClearView.
• Added support for Crossbow - a platform for network virtualization.
• Added iSCSI support for COMSTAR.
• Many improvements to the CIFS service, including restricting access by IP, ACL, caching.

Hardware Support:

• Official SPARC platform support added for the first time.
• Added a lot of drivers.
• Added full support for the new processor family from Intel, codenamed Nehalem (Xeon 5500).

And lastly, I suggest to get acquainted with two screencasts:

• New desktop feature in OpenSolaris 2009.06.
• What's new? OpenSolaris 2009.06: Ready for the enterprise.