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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Dec 2006 00:18 UTC, submitted by Rob Shepherd

"Sun has released Solaris 10 11/06 today. Internally, we called this 'Update 3'. The biggie features for this update are Trusted Extensions and Secure by Default. Yes, all of the security features you loved back in Trusted Solaris, are now standard as part of Solaris 10. This isn't just for the feds either. Banks love it. Wall St. loves it. Corporations that need to follow Sarbanes-Oxley love it." Get it here, a what's new guide is also available.

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RE[2]: Apparently

by Bobe on Tue 12th Dec 2006 18:28 UTC in reply to "RE: Apparently"

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2006-12-12

I sincerely hope so. Solaris has some great technology in it that would be of benefit to the Open Source community. On the other hand, the Open Source community has a lot to offer Solaris in the form of utilities and polish (Solaris is pretty ugly by default).

I think the result of a merge of the technologies, utilities, and polish would result in an excellent OS.

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RE[3]: Apparently

by atomicplayboy on Tue 12th Dec 2006 19:22 in reply to "RE[2]: Apparently"

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2006-04-28

What do you mean by 'ugly'? Aesthetics? CDE, which was the default desktop is pretty ugly, but with this release, Java Desktop System is the default, and JDS has a very nice look to it.

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RE[4]: Apparently

by Bobe on Tue 12th Dec 2006 21:08 in reply to "RE[3]: Apparently"

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2006-12-12

CDE is part of what I mean, but some of the standard userland tools Linux users take for granted are not on Solaris, not installed or set up by default, or Solaris versions don't work right.

Perhaps this is fixed it later versions. The last time I used Solaris was 8.

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