Differences between Solaris 9 and 10 1

[corjoh]

I'm looking to evaluate Solaris for my own personal development, but I wanted to know the major diffeneces between Solaris 9 and 10. If anyone can tell me or point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it.

Thanks

 

[cndcadams]

Corjoh;

attached is a link and info I pulled from it.

http://www.sun.com/software/whitepapers/solaris10/classbyitself.pdf

Breakthrough New Features
Far from being an incremental software release, the Solaris 10 Operating System delivers a breathtaking new set of
features designed to dramatically improve performance, availability, and manageability. New key features include:
•
Solaris Containers
— Offering highly-efficient, mainframe-quality partitioning technologies for low-cost systems,
Solaris Containers (formerly N1™ Grid Containers) can help consolidate multiple, potentially incompatible applications
onto the same server — each securely in its own environment with application-specific resource allocation
and an isolated fault zone.
•
DTrace
— Developers and administrators can quickly zero in on performance issues as well as difficult-to-find and
difficult-to-re-create bugs using the powerful new Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) facility to quickly understand system
behavior. DTrace can be used on running systems to examine application, library, and kernel activity.
•
TCP/IP Stack Improvements
— TCP and IP layers are partially merged in the Solaris 10 OS, resulting in significant
performance improvements over the Solaris 9 OS on UltraSPARC processor and x86 architecture-based systems.
•
Predictive Self-Healing
— This innovative new capability automatically diagnoses, isolates, and recovers from
many hardware and application faults. Business-critical applications and essential system services can continue
uninterrupted in the event of software failures, major hardware component failures, and even software misconfiguration
problems. Solaris Fault Manager works in tandem with Solaris Service Manager to form the new
Predictive Self-Healing architecture in the Solaris OS.
•
Solaris Cryptographic Framework
— A consistent framework for application-level and kernel-level cryptographic
operations, the Solaris Cryptographic Framework can help increase security and performance while giving applications
access to the same hardware encryption acceleration devices used by the operating system kernel.
•
Process Rights Management Facilities
— This new security feature significantly reduces the possibility of a
compromised application doing real damage to a system by providing fine-grained control over the resources
and objects that processes can manipulate.
•
Solaris ZFS File System
— Integrated device and volume management with automatic administration features
provides a flexible, secure, scalable, high-performance, policy-driven, and fault-resilient file system.
The unique combination of features found in the Solaris 10 OS allows it to detect and correct faults before they
result in application failures, deliver optimized resource utilization, provide higher performance, and protect applications
with unparalleled security — all across multiple platform and processor architectures.

Thanks

CA

 

[corjoh]

Thanks CA,

Just what I was looking for!