In short :
Solaris 10 1/06 What’s new guide
T: Solaris 10, Grub
With the first update of Solaris 10 soon to be released, it is about time to get to know Grub, the new bootloader for x86 machines.
Here are two detailed documents from BigAdmin that explain everything about Grub in Solaris.
All the details in this official link.
Postgres is one of the oldest and most advanced Open Source Database available today.
If you need Solaris but don’t need Oracle, this news is good news !
Related link : Sun’s Postgres for Solaris page
Sun finally announced what they want to do with the “Janus” project. As a reminder, it lets Linux applications ( binaries ) run unmodified on a running Solaris machine.
Well, integration is a major Solaris 10 feature, which means that the Linux Environment can be used in a Solaris Container as well, aka a Zone.
What Sun is saying is that, if you are running some Linux machines and are afraid of migrating to Solaris because of application issues, well, there is now a way to limit the risk while still taking advantages of the brilliant features of Solaris 10.
It is even possible to debug Linux apps running on Solaris using DTrace !
Related Link : Sun’s linux in container page
T : OpenSolaris
Xen is an hypervisor technology. What it basically means is that it allows to run several different Operating Systems on one machine. A popular commercial hypervisor is VmWare. XEN is an open-source product that has got many fans in the industry.
In august last year, a Sun engineer announced that it was possible to boot several Solaris 10 instances on one machine using Xen.
Now Sun is announcing that Xen will be part of OpenSolaris in the next weeks, which means that we’ll have it in Solaris eventually. Link to OpenSolaris Xen community
T : Xen, OpenSolaris