Installation guide

Significant improvements have been achieved in web server and database
performance. Existing levels of NFS server and time-share performance have been
maintained.
AnswerBook2 provides online documentation using a web browser interface.
Conformance to the X/Open
®
UNIX
®
95 standards continues the Sun
TM
commitment to open systems standards.
Network management and system administration features provide a variety of
improvements. Some of these are Network Time Protocol (NTP), Solstice
TM
Enterprise Agents
TM
, Desktop Management Interface (DMI), dynamic host
configuration protocol (DHCP), and variable length subnet masks (VLSM).
Power Management
TM
for SPARC
TM
systems saves energy consumption when your
system is idle by turning off the monitor (and optionally the system) according to
preconfigured user choices.
This release is year–2000 ready and follows X/Open guidelines where appropriate.
Expanded language coverage is provided with the addition of 14 new locales,
Unicode 2.0 support, TrueType fonts, and additional input methods for Asian
languages.
TABLE 2–1 Solaris 2.6 Features at a Glance
Feature Description
Java
Java Virtual
Machine
The Java Virtual Machine 1.1 integrates the Java platform for the Solaris operating
environment. It includes the Java runtime environment and the basic tools needed to
develop Java applets and applications.
HotJava Browser
The HotJava browser provides an easy-to-use, customizable user interface for exploring
the Internet and corporate intranets. It can run executable content in the form of applets.
(Applets are Java programs that can be included in an HTML page much like images can
be included.)
Intranet/Internet Services
WebNFS Software The WebNFS software enables file systems to be accessed through the Web using the NFS
protocol. This protocol is very reliable and provides greater throughput under a heavy load.
Performance Improvements
Database Performance
UFS Direct I/O For UFS files, direct I/O enables a program to read and write data directly from/to the
disk, bypassing the virtual memory buffer cache. An example of a bulk I/O operation is
downloading large amounts of satellite data to a file.
2-2 Information Library for Solaris 2.6 (Intel Platform Edition) ♦ August 1997