Hey Glynn.
In addition to what everyone else has already said:
1. I'd definitely highlight Elisa and Codeina as Brian suggested. I've
got a primary OpenSolaris media center and a secondary OpenSolaris box
doing many media centery things. Both JustWork(tm) -- and work far
better than similar/competing solutions IMHO. Thanks to these boxes,
I've completely canceled my cable TV service. :-)
2. I'd definitely highlight the time-slider/snapshot features mentioned
by Calum:
> Time-slider: now allows manual creation and deletion of snapshots.
The Nautilus integration (in particular, being able to right-click on
any item to take a snapshot and explore versions of existing snapshots)
is awesome.
3. I didn't see any mention of all the changes made by the pkg team. If
I missed someone's message highlighting these already, my apologies. But
improvements in this area have been considerable IMHO. In particular:
a. Significantly more performant -- both loading and
searching.
b. Ability to search across multiple repositories.
c. Ability to name and rename Boot Environments (i.e.
via GUI). I *think* deleting BE's via packagemanager
is also new to the upcoming release.
d. Web Install.
e. A number of additional usability and accessibility
enhancements. (Thanks Padraig, Michal, and John!)
4. Wireless networking for me now works like a charm and without any
effort on my part. While I'm starting to lose track, I *believe* the rum
drivers were (officially) added to OpenSolaris post 2008.11 (I want to
say build 105). Also the reliability of wireless networking seems to
have increased significantly (especially for the rum and ath drivers).
HTH. Take care.
--joanie
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 09:25 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm starting to pull together the What's New in 2009.06 guide. I'll be
> looking through the list of new packages in David's release notes,
> along with Cyril's excellent blog which details the changes going into
> Nevada. If you have any ideas of what should be covered, send them
> through - here's your chance to get involved!
>
> Usually in the past I've tried to focus as much as possible on user
> visible features rather than obscure additions to command lines or
> similar
>
> http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/features/whats-new/200811/
>
> The new document will likely take the form of the existing one.
>
> thanks,
>
> Glynn
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