Available OpenSolaris 2009.6
In the city of San Francisco, yesterday was introduced OpenSolaris 2009.06, Sun announced that both OpenSolaris 2009.06 and Solaris 10 will have the same level of support, and at the same price.
Developments including the system are:
- Hardware support:
OpenSolaris will be available for the SPARC platform, by the side of the Intel architecture, OpenSolaris supports Xeon processor 5500 (Nehalem) and SPARC as well as build capacity to provide processor virtualization.
An interesting feature is that this version will take advantage of power management features. For example, threads can run on different processors depending on their status and power that avoids busy processing mode can be quite low.
- Improvements to the user:
The Nautilus file manager includes a feature called Time Slider, which thanks to the power of the ZFS file system, can create a "seizure" of the file system at any time to return to that state in the future if necessary. The user interface is very intuitive and evidence that has been made, you can move smoothly between 4,000 catches.
To facilitate the installation of codecs, it has added a utility called codeine, which is connected to Fluendo codecs for free or in cases where required, provide the option to buy.
It has also been added Moov media center as part of the system. Moov is a media center that was previously known as Elisa.
The package manager can now upgrade to new versions in the same way you get used to Linux and allows the discovery of new repositories to add packages to the system.
- Virtualization:
Another feature that is added is the networking technology of the project Crossbow is better use of network resources through virtualization and management tools.
With Crossbow network interfaces can virtualize, thus the total bandwidth assigned to each virtualized network interface. This is ideal when it serves also as a host operating system virtualization, in this case each virtual machine can use their own virtualized network interface.
Virtualized interfaces can be managed as if they were real interfaces to implement traffic shaping policies, QoS (Quality of Service), or to apply firewall rules. In addition, the administration can be performed through SNMP tools industry standards such as HP OpenView or IBM Tivoli, and generally anyone who works with this protocol.
Source:
http://www.fayerwayer.com/2009/06/llega-opensolaris-200906-con-un-toque-empresarial/
