Installation guide

TABLE 2–2 New Features in Solaris 2.5.1
Feature Description
Security
Large User IDs
and Group ID
The limit on User ID and Group ID values has been raised to 2147483647, or the maximum
value of a signed integer. The nobody user and group (60001) and the no access user and
group (60002) retain the same UIDs and GIDs as previous Solaris 2.x releases.
Graphics/Imaging
KCMS Calibrator
Tool
KCMS includes a loadable driver module for the X-Rite DTP92 Incident Colorimeter. The
driver supports the X-Rite colorimeter, which connects to the serial port to obtain color
measurement data.
Includes new procedures for adding and removing color calibration modules to the system
configuration file, OWconfig.
Solaris 2.5 Release
Table 2–3 describes new and enhanced features of the Solaris 2.5 release.
TABLE 2–3 New Features in Solaris 2.5
Features Description
Standards
XCU4 Conformance (for
SPARC and Intel Systems)
Utilities conform to the XCU4 portion of the X/Open Portability Guide, Issue 4
specification from X/Open.
POSIX.1c Conformance Conforms to standards based on draft 10, which defines multithreading
interfaces.
Networking
What’s New at a Glance 2-11