Solaris 10 Update 4 finally shipped today – the changelog lists all the nice features of Solaris Express I’ve been banging on about for the last year or so including
plus a load of other stuff I didn’t get a chance to try yet, like
- Samba with Active Directory and ZFS ACL support
- IP instances
- a boatload of drivers
- a desktop overhaul (firefox, thunderbird 2.0 etc).
I’ll probably stick with Solaris Express on my laptop , mainly because the wireless/NWAM bits work so well. Plus I’m really looking forward to the
upcoming mdns (aka zeroconf) support in Nevada b72 to play nice with OSX.
Servers are another matter, though.
With iSCSI in a supported Solaris release, Thumpers finally make sense.
And Glassfish v2 is in final RC now, and should be out by the end of the month. A small GF cluster is high on my todo list, and by October I should have a fully-supported stack.
Oh, and tomorrow Brian Apple will be releasing his new liquid iPods which I hear are delicious.