Sun updates Solaris 10 operating system

Sun announced on Thursday the availability of the Solaris 10 10/09 Operating System. The Solaris 10 OS has been extended with new performance and power efficiency enhancements, more streamlined management of system installations, updates and fixes, new updates for Solaris ZFS and advancements to further leverage the functionality of the latest SPARC and x86-based systems. Solaris 10 10/09 improves the management of consolidated systems and provides several features to help streamline the upgrade and patching process, especially on systems deploying Solaris Containers. Solaris 10 provides a new automated framework for installing patches in single user mode, parallel patch installation of virtualized Solaris Containers and significant speedups for SVR4 package installation.