Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07

Another great new release of this excellent Solaris edition.

Solaris Express Developer Edition

Lots of new features :

Solaris Express Developer Edition : Features
Solaris Express Developer Edition : Tech FAQ

including:

• Sun Studio 12 C, C++ and Fortran compilers and NEW D-Light, a GUI DTrace tool that simplifies using DTrace
• NetBeans 5.5
• Solaris (Solaris Express Community Edition build 70b)
• A superb new installer
• Updated GNOME and lots lots more...

This is an excellent distribution from Sun, amazing useful for developers. I install it on an x64 system and it goes on in 64-bit mode, but you can boot it in 32-bit mode also. I assume it can install on 32-bit x86 but I haven't tried that.

Sun Solaris Express Developer Edition Gets Usability Makeover

Update It seems excellent, my sound is now working. Overall the system feels faster.

New Project Indiana Details Emerge

Phoronix reports about new Project Indiana details.

It seems like it is going to be the new OpenSolaris (32-bit & 64-bit). It looks great and I cannot wait to use it.
For debugging Java JNI, GNU/Linux is pretty much useless right now, because gdb cannot use the new thread model. But using Solaris or OpenSolaris dbx debugs perfectly.
The Solaris Developer Edition 64-bit is a great OS for the time being, and will probably get updated shortly with a new kernel and new tools, look forward to that also.

Phoronix: New Project Indiana Details Emerge

AMD unveil new Quad 64-bit CPU

64-bit Quad-Core with: 64-bit with great performance, with enhanced performance per watt, and improved virtualisation.
The new chip has better a floating point architecture, a new memory optimiser to help with memory throughput on multi cores, hugely improved power management, and a smarter cache, and more.

More here : AMD Multi Core

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