What's new for Solaris 8 Intel?

• ISA bus support is removed for most ISA devices (use PCI!).
  
• EISA bus support is removed (use PCI!)
  
• USB support
  
• ACPI support
  
• The 8G boot disk limit for ATAPI disks is removed.
  
• Sun added Pyramid/Siemens-Nixdorf's Reliability, Availability and
  Scalability (RAS) functionality and Reliant UNIX clustering and scalability
  into Solaris.
  NCR added MP-RAS (diagnostics, remote support...).
  Fujitsu added improved RAS and advanced diagnostics.
  
• X11 R6.4 (Xinerama)
  
• IPv6 (128-bit IP addresses)
  
• Perl 5.00503
  
• Java 2
  
• gzip and lots of other GNU utilities
  
• New drivers, such as for Adaptec Ultra2
  

This is a partial list.
For more details, see _What's New in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment_ at
http://docs.Sun.COM/.

Some people don't like the "Java Webstart Installation."
(which actually has nothing to do with the web!).
However, you can still boot and install with the "Software 1 of 2" disk.

Solaris 8 Intel removed the 8GB limit on IDE hard drives
(SSCI has no such limit).

Also, Solaris 8 requires 64MB or the installation will abort
(the documentation is out-of-date).

[Thanks to Igor Sobrado Delgado, Thomas Tornblom, William Malloy,
Paul Carver, and Alan Coopersmith]


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