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Good news from Adobe. They released the Flash Player 10 for Solaris and Opensolaris on x86 as well as on SPARC. Nice! You can download it at the usual location.

Für die Immersion Week habe ich meine Security-Präsentation ein wenig aufgewertet und erweitert. Hier ist die neue Version:

(click here for pdf)
Ich habe unter anderem mehr Erlaeuterungen und Neuentwicklungen eingebaut. An anderen stellen habe ich Glenn Brunettes Security Deep Dive fuer weitere Beispiele gepluendert. Glenns Präsentation ist wirklich gut (allerdings auf Englisch). Ich empfehle unbedingt die Lektüre.

One "nice" side effect of Opensourcing: You don´t need leaks at Sun, you have just to wait until plattform support code gets integrated into Opensolaris to learn more about upcoming hardware, for example OPL Ikkaku platform support in Solaris Nevada:

Official product name for Ikkaku is not yet finalized. Ikkaku is a 2U, single CPU version of SPARC Enterprise M-series (sun4u) server utilizing the SPARC64-VII (Jupiter) processor.

IBM published a new Redbook about the deployment of one of their products on Solaris 10: IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 on the Solaris 10 Operating System. The redbook is a joint effort of IBM and Sun employees. It´s an excellent whitepaper for all people thinking about the deployment of Solaris 10 for their appservers. This whitepaper goes way beyond a simple basic installation and tuning guide. It includes the usage of Zones, Resource Management, SMF, Least Privileges. Even the Solaris 8 Migration Assisant (aka Solaris 8 Zones in Solaris 10) is covered as a way to migrate old websphere installations until transitioned to newer WS versions.

It´s too late to apply for the beta program, but this page gives a nice overview about some of the upcoming new features in Update 5 of Solaris 10:

• Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP)
  SDP is the industry standard protocol for delivering Sockets-based networking over Infiniband.
• Persistent Group Reservation for iSCSI target
  Defines how cluster nodes are reserved and released and maintains state/data when a node fails. Cool, support for cluster storage on Solaris iSCSI is on it´s way...
• iSNS Client for iSCSI target
  Client for the Internet Storage Name Service
• IP addressing ability for IBTF interfaces
  Infiniband again. A number of IB Upper Level Protocols (e.g. RDS, SDP, NFS) require an interface for IP address resolution that meets the RDMA IP CM Service specification in the InfiniBand Architecture Specification 1.2 Annex.
• SAS multipathing support
  Solaris multipathing (Sun StorageTek Traffic Manager, also known as MPxIO) support has been added to the Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) protocol by extending mpt(7D) driver to utilize the existing MPxIO framework.
• Capping CPU resource usage
  This feature allows applications to run on any CPU while limiting their CPU usage and provide fine-grained (specified in fractions of a CPU) limits.

Finally! Solaris 10 Update 4 will contain the iSCSI Target according to Scott Tracy´s blog. With the iSCSI Target you can give other operating systems the advantages of ZFS by giving them a volume on a Solaris 10 machine. Think of the Solaris 10 as the firmware of an Storage Device. And well, and other filesystems participate on all the advantages of other features in Solaris, for example Fault Management Architecture for preventive substitution of hard disks.

Daniel summarizes information about running Solaris 10 on a Macbook Pro. Well ... i think i have to save some money