Thursday, March 19, 2009

SXCE build 110 is out

Solaris Express Community Edition (aka Nevada) build 110 has been released.

Significant changes in this build

1. PAD (Power Aware Scheduler) and deep C State project integrated
2. sys-suspend utility added
3. Paravirtualized Drivers for Fully Virtualized xVM Domains
4. libmcrypt integrated
5. php updated to 5.2.9
6. lighttpd updated to 1.4.21
7. Google Droid fonts added
8. deja-vu fonts upgraded to version 2.28

Changes on package level:

New packages:
system      SUNWSblimCimClient               sblim cim client for the java platform
system SUNWlibmcrypt Libmcrypt Encryption Algorithms Library
system SUNWlua Lua Programming language
system SUNWsblimwbemcli SBLIMWbemcli
system SUNWttf-google-droid Droid font family from Google's Android project


Removed packages.
system      SUNWpostgr                       PostgreSQL 8.1.11 client programs and libraries
system SUNWpostgr-contrib Contributed source and binaries distributed with PostgreSQL 8.1.11
system SUNWpostgr-devel PostgreSQL 8.1.11 development header files and libraries
system SUNWpostgr-docs Extra documentation for PostgreSQL 8.1.11
system SUNWpostgr-libs The shared libraries required for any PostgreSQL 8.1.11 clients
system SUNWpostgr-pl The PL procedural languages for PostgreSQL 8.1.11
system SUNWpostgr-server The programs needed to create and run a PostgreSQL 8.1.11 server
system SUNWpostgr-server-data The data directories needed to create and run a PostgreSQL 8.1.11 server
system SUNWpostgr-tcl A Tcl client library for PostgreSQL

Monday, March 09, 2009

SXCE build 109 is out

Solaris Express Community Edition (aka Nevada) build 109 has been released.

Significant changes in this build

1. Laptop Hotkey Support
2. Unified /usr/{bin,ucb}/ps
3. DTrace CPC Provider
4. NVIDIA graphics driver updated to 180.29
5. tree 1.5.2.1 integrated
6. Python 2.6.1 packages are available
7. sg3_utils integrated

Changes on package level:

New packages:

GNOME2 SUNWPython26 The Python interpreter, libraries and utilities
GNOME2 SUNWPython26-devel The Python interpreter, libraries and utilities - development files
GNOME2 SUNWPython26-extra Supplemental Python libraries and utilities
GNOME2 SUNWgnome-python26-libs Python 2.6 support libraries for GNOME
GNOME2 SUNWgnome-python26-libs-devel Python 2.6 support libraries for GNOME - development files
system SUNWkonkretcmpi KonkretCMPI
system SUNWlang-be Belarus language support
system SUNWlang-ka Georgian language support
system SUNWpostgr-83-l10n-ja Japanese localization for PostgreSQL 8.3
GNOME2 SUNWpython26-setuptools Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages easily
system SUNWsg3utilsr sg3_utils - a package of utilities for sending SCSI commands (root)
system SUNWsg3utilsu sg3_utils - a package of utilities for sending SCSI commands (usr)
system SUNWsimplewbem SimpleWBEM (Cimple)
system SUNWtree tree - recursive directory listing program