The following is copied from the "What's New" doc that accompanies the
now-available Solaris Express (Solaris 10 OS) 4/04 release:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
New features in the Solaris Express 4/04 release include the following:

    * TCP wrappers for rpcbind
    * Mozilla 1.4
    * CPU Performance Counters
    * UFS Logging Enabled by Default
    * MILTER, sendmail's New Mail Filter API
    * Wheel Mouse Support
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

To download Solaris Express, go here:
    http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/get.html

If you're not familiar with the Software Express Program for Solaris,
here's a summary paragraph from the marketing page:

    The Software Express Program for Solaris allows our customers to
    get the latest features and technologies as they are integrated
    into the Solaris Operating System for both the SPARC and x86
    platform. This program delivers the very latest work-in-progress
    code base from our Sun Development team in monthly intervals. Each
    follow on release will be a full build containing the very latest
    features and technologies integrated into the software at the end
    of each development cycle.

We also recommend the following articles:

  * Previewing the Next Solaris OS with Sun's Software Express Program
    By Amy Rich
    http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/solaris_express.html

  * The Software Express from Sun
    By Peter Baer Galvin
    http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9102/sam0404h/0404h.htm

Eric

Eric Boutilier <Eric.Boutilier@Sun.COM> writes:

>The following is copied from the "What's New" doc that accompanies the
>now-available Solaris Express (Solaris 10 OS) 4/04 release:

>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>New features in the Solaris Express 4/04 release include the following:

>    * TCP wrappers for rpcbind
>    * Mozilla 1.4
>    * CPU Performance Counters
>    * UFS Logging Enabled by Default
>    * MILTER, sendmail's New Mail Filter API
>    * Wheel Mouse Support

Please note that due to unrelated circumstances, the x86 X server portion
of "Wheel Mouse support" did not make Solaris Express 04/04 (build 54);
it did make build 55 so you should be seeing it next SX release.

(We also added a "noexec" mount option and extended ucred support
to RPC)


Casper

On 14 Apr 2004 08:02:43 GMT
Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> wrote:

> Please note that due to unrelated circumstances, the x86 X server
> portion of "Wheel Mouse support" did not make Solaris Express 04/04
> (build 54); it did make build 55 so you should be seeing it next SX
> release.

Does that mean the sparc has wheel mouse support as of build 54? or is
that delayed also to build 55?

> 
> (We also added a "noexec" mount option and extended ucred support
> to RPC)
> 

A, nice, nice


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Barbie LeVile <barbie@gods-inc.de> writes:

>On 14 Apr 2004 08:02:43 GMT
>Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> wrote:

>> Please note that due to unrelated circumstances, the x86 X server
>> portion of "Wheel Mouse support" did not make Solaris Express 04/04
>> (build 54); it did make build 55 so you should be seeing it next SX
>> release.

>Does that mean the sparc has wheel mouse support as of build 54? or is
>that delayed also to build 55?

SPARC as of build 54; x86 as of build 55 (the kernel code is mostly common
and went in build 54 but the x86 X server missed build 54).

Casper
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Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> writes:

> Eric Boutilier <Eric.Boutilier@Sun.COM> writes:
>
>>The following is copied from the "What's New" doc that accompanies the
>>now-available Solaris Express (Solaris 10 OS) 4/04 release:
>
>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>New features in the Solaris Express 4/04 release include the following:
>
>>    * TCP wrappers for rpcbind
>>    * Mozilla 1.4
>>    * CPU Performance Counters
>>    * UFS Logging Enabled by Default
>>    * MILTER, sendmail's New Mail Filter API
>>    * Wheel Mouse Support
>
> Please note that due to unrelated circumstances, the x86 X server portion
> of "Wheel Mouse support" did not make Solaris Express 04/04 (build 54);
> it did make build 55 so you should be seeing it next SX release.

Casper, is this issue mentioned in release notes that "Freed File System
Space Might Not Be Immediatelly Reclaimed If UFS Logging Is Enabled
(5012326)" something new (introduced in b54) or did it exist before but was
not mentioned because UFS Logging was not enabled per default? The
workarounds provided (switch logging off or umount file system) are not
really practical. 

How serious is the issue or is more a matter of (not) being POSIX
complaint? Has it been fixed in the meantime?

Thanks and bye, Dragan


P.S. For some strange reason, docs.sun.con didn't ask me for a password to
retrieve the documentation (at least not for "What's New" and "Release
Notes"). Is this a bug or a feature?

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Dragan Cvetkovic wrote:

> P.S. For some strange reason, docs.sun.con didn't ask me for a password to
> retrieve the documentation (at least not for "What's New" and "Release
> Notes"). Is this a bug or a feature?

As per a post in comp.unix.solaris by Alan Hargreaves of Sun Product 
Technical Support, this is a feature.

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Robin KAY <komadori@myrealbox.com> writes:

> Dragan Cvetkovic wrote:
>
>> P.S. For some strange reason, docs.sun.con didn't ask me for a password to
>> retrieve the documentation (at least not for "What's New" and "Release
>> Notes"). Is this a bug or a feature?
>
> As per a post in comp.unix.solaris by Alan Hargreaves of Sun Product
> Technical Support, this is a feature.

Thanks Robin. I have seen Alan's article _after_ posting my
questions. Serves me right for not reading everything. But then, he only
posted to comp.unix.solaris and I was reading this in alt.solaris.x86. So,
serves him right for not posting to both solaris newsgroups :-)

Bye, Dragan

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Dragan Cvetkovic <me@privacy.net> writes:

>Casper, is this issue mentioned in release notes that "Freed File System
>Space Might Not Be Immediatelly Reclaimed If UFS Logging Is Enabled
>(5012326)" something new (introduced in b54) or did it exist before but was
>not mentioned because UFS Logging was not enabled per default? The
>workarounds provided (switch logging off or umount file system) are not
>really practical. 

It has always existed as part of the logging implementation; it's
really mostly a POSIX standards issue.  (The standards test will
do something like vfstat(), remove(), vfstat () and expect the data
to be freed immediately and not over the next few seconds.

The behaviour was pathologically worse before but that has long been
fixed.

>How serious is the issue or is more a matter of (not) being POSIX
>complaint? Has it been fixed in the meantime?

Minor POSIX issue, documented for standards compliance reasons, I think.

>P.S. For some strange reason, docs.sun.con didn't ask me for a password to
>retrieve the documentation (at least not for "What's New" and "Release
>Notes"). Is this a bug or a feature?

Feature!

Casper
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to opinions held by my employer, Sun Microsystems.
Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may
be fiction rather than truth.

Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> writes:

> Dragan Cvetkovic <me@privacy.net> writes:
>
>>Casper, is this issue mentioned in release notes that "Freed File System
>>Space Might Not Be Immediatelly Reclaimed If UFS Logging Is Enabled
>>(5012326)" something new (introduced in b54) or did it exist before but was
>>not mentioned because UFS Logging was not enabled per default? The
>>workarounds provided (switch logging off or umount file system) are not
>>really practical. 
>
> It has always existed as part of the logging implementation; it's
> really mostly a POSIX standards issue.  (The standards test will
> do something like vfstat(), remove(), vfstat () and expect the data
> to be freed immediately and not over the next few seconds.
>
> The behaviour was pathologically worse before but that has long been
> fixed.
>
>>How serious is the issue or is more a matter of (not) being POSIX
>>complaint? Has it been fixed in the meantime?
>
> Minor POSIX issue, documented for standards compliance reasons, I think.
>

Thanks Casper.

Bye, Dragan

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"Casper H.S. Dik" <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:407d2bab$0$562$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...

> SPARC as of build 54; x86 as of build 55 (the kernel code is mostly common
> and went in build 54 but the x86 X server missed build 54).

BTW, how long does it currently take to build Solaris?  I'm assuming there
are nightly builds?

In article <407e2c5e$0$716$5402220f@news.sunrise.ch>,
	"UNIX admin" <tripivceta@hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> "Casper H.S. Dik" <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:407d2bab$0$562$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
> 
>> SPARC as of build 54; x86 as of build 55 (the kernel code is mostly common
>> and went in build 54 but the x86 X server missed build 54).
> 
> BTW, how long does it currently take to build Solaris?  I'm assuming there
> are nightly builds?

Solaris is built up from lots of consolidations, which are each built
separately by their own teams. I doubt anyone knows how long it takes
to build the whole lot as no one person ever does this. The OS and
Networking consolidation (kernel, most of the common unix commands in
/usr/[s]bin and all their libraries, etc) is typically a couple of hours.
Depends greatly on speed and number of CPUs on the system you build it
on.

-- 
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andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|Solaris is built up from lots of consolidations, which are each built
|separately by their own teams. I doubt anyone knows how long it takes
|to build the whole lot as no one person ever does this. The OS and
|Networking consolidation (kernel, most of the common unix commands in
|/usr/[s]bin and all their libraries, etc) is typically a couple of hours.
|Depends greatly on speed and number of CPUs on the system you build it
|on.

We just upgraded the machine we use to build the X Window System 
consolidation (the core X server and clients) for Solaris 10/sparc from a 
Ultra 60 to a SunBlade 2500 and the build times were cut from 3 1/2 hours 
to 1 1/2 hours.  We hope they'll get a bit faster when the lab admin
finishes the network switch upgrade from the current 100 mbit to gigabit
ethernet, since the SB2500 can make use of that.   (They'd probably be
a bit faster if we put the compilers & source locally instead of NFS 
mounting, but we prefer the convienience of having a single file server
to manage and the ability to have the build machines be basically 
stateless and easily replacable/upgradable/interchangable.)

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Alan Coopersmith wrote:
[snip]
> The OS and
> |Networking consolidation (kernel, most of the common unix commands in
> |/usr/[s]bin and all their libraries, etc) is typically a couple of hours.
> |Depends greatly on speed and number of CPUs on the system you build it
> |on.
> 
> We just upgraded the machine we use to build the X Window System
> consolidation (the core X server and clients)

BTW: Which version do you use ? X11R6.7 ?

> for Solaris 10/sparc from a
> Ultra 60 to a SunBlade 2500 and the build times were cut from 3 1/2 hours
> to 1 1/2 hours.  We hope they'll get a bit faster when the lab admin
> finishes the network switch upgrade from the current 100 mbit to gigabit
> ethernet, since the SB2500 can make use of that.   (They'd probably be
> a bit faster if we put the compilers & source locally instead of NFS
> mounting,

What about using cachsfs ? Or maybe NFSv4 can help (but I never had time
to test that yet).

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Roland Mainz <roland.mainz@nrubsig.org> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|Alan Coopersmith wrote:
|> We just upgraded the machine we use to build the X Window System
|> consolidation (the core X server and clients)
|
|BTW: Which version do you use ? X11R6.7 ?

The Solaris 10 X server is still based on X11R6.6.  We're still working
out what the best way is to get X11R6.7 in, and when we would be able to
do that.

|What about using cachsfs ? Or maybe NFSv4 can help (but I never had time
|to test that yet).

I haven't had the time to try either.

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On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 03:04:15 +0000 (UTC)
Alan Coopersmith <alanc@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

> Roland Mainz <roland.mainz@nrubsig.org> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
> |Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> |> We just upgraded the machine we use to build the X Window System
> |> consolidation (the core X server and clients)
> |
> |BTW: Which version do you use ? X11R6.7 ?
> 
> The Solaris 10 X server is still based on X11R6.6.  We're still
> working out what the best way is to get X11R6.7 in, and when we would
> be able to do that.
> 

hrmm, since the Xvideo extension is part of .7, does that mean theres a
possibility that we get that for Solaris?


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I have seen things you lusers would not believe.
I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab.
I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate.
All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last
week. Time to die.

Barbie LeVile <barbie@gods-inc.de> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|hrmm, since the Xvideo extension is part of .7, does that mean theres a
|possibility that we get that for Solaris?

Yes, that's a definite possibility.  But even before it was in X11R6.7
there was a possibility - we brought in the Render & Resource extensions
directly into Xsun from XFree86 in the past.

But no promises yet.  (Especially no promises of support for specific
devices.)

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Hey,when the SSE instruction set will be supported by solaris?

te0543@giga.net.tw (Joseph) writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|Hey,when the SSE instruction set will be supported by solaris?

Solaris 9 4/04 and recent releases of Solaris Express (I don't remember
the exact one it went in).  For the Sun compiler support, check out the
current beta release of the Sun Studio 9 compilers.

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Joseph wrote:
> Hey,when the SSE instruction set will be supported by solaris?

Solaris 9 update 6 (0404) or Solaris Express (-b54 and maybe
a version or two earlier).  The new Studio 9 ea2 compilers also
do SSE/SSE2.

Stuart