As mentioned here and as you can see on this page, there are a lot of interesting new features in the upcoming Solaris 10 10/08 or also called Solaris 10 Update 6 release:
- Intel Xeon CPU/Memory Fault Management
- AMD64 CPU/Memory Fault Management
- Intel NUMA support
- Intel SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2 support
- AMD SSE4A support
- Xen-based paravirtualization guest support for network and disk
- ZFS boot / ZFS as a root file system ( yes !! )
- Solaris Containers update on attach
- Solaris Containers on a ZFS root file system
- Logical Domains support for disk and network Dynamic Reconfiguration
- PostgreSQL 8.3
Hope to hear more from Sun aboute the Update 6 and hope bits will be available for download, soon. Refering to this press release, Solaris 10 10/08 is scheduled to be available in mid-October.
UPDATE: Solaris 10 Update 6 is released on Halloween 2008 !
Look at the “What’s New in the Solaris 10 10/08 Release” Documentation and
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