Installation guide

TABLE 2–3 New Features in Solaris 2.5 (continued)
Features Description
X/Open Federated Naming
Service
FNS combines different naming systems that are regulated under a single
interface.
Nologin System administrators can warn users about impending down-time with /etc/
nologin.
Font Support - CID fonts provide improved performance for Display PostScript clients.
- X11 clients can now access fonts rendered by the DPS extension through the
XATM interface.
Compatibility - More Solaris 1 binaries are now able to run on the Solaris 2.5 operating system.
(For SPARC systems)
- Some shell scripts from 4.x now work under 2.5.
Performance
Time-sharing Improved performance under time-sharing work loads.
KAIO Improves the performance of asynchronous reads or writes for raw devices.
Solaris 2.4 Release
Table 2–4 describes new and enhanced features of the Solaris 2.4 release.
TABLE 2–4 New Features in Solaris 2.4
Features Description
Installation
Motif Installation GUI A new GUI—used to install Solaris software.
OpenWindows
Expanded Localization
(OpenWindows 3.4)
Added to the operating system are four European languages and four Asian
languages, as well as Latin American Spanish and U.S. English, for desktop and
workgroup server product configurations.
Graphics
2-14 Information Library for Solaris 2.6 (Intel Platform Edition) ♦ August 1997