Did you know that the "Security Target" part of the Common Criteria EAL4+ CC evaluation that IBM and Red Hat are getting tested will not test key features and will reduce the functions available to the user? That assertion comes from Jim Laurent; see article [18346] for a list of features and a comparison to Solaris Trusted Extensions.
The Security section this week also offers some podcast links [18333], SunSolve links regarding vulnerabilities in Solaris OS [18334] and more on Solaris Trusted Extensions [18347].
What elements in Solaris 10 OS make a secure server? See article [18352]. For more on servers we present some benchmarks: article [18308] compares the Sun Blade T6300 with the UltraSPARC T1 to IBM's p570. Another benchmark shows what the GlassFish v1 server can do - see [18354].
Newly available is the JDK 6 update 2 with JRE and more [18336]. Also in the Java section find a tutorial on JavaFX [18353].
Ask the experts on a panel this Tuesday questions on topics such as running Windows on Sun servers, compatibility between Java technology and .NET, Project Tango and more. The event is live, starting at 10 am PDT and 1 pm EST (5 pm GMT).
A new benchmark result shows GlassFish v1 application server stack comprised of PostgreSQL on Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) on Sun Fire T2000 servers gave 89 percent the performance at 34 percent the cost of a comparable benchmark with an all proprietary system.
Good news from Sun for July 2007 includes the launch of the Sun Blade 6000 line based on microprocessors from AMD, Sun, and, for the first time, Intel. A success story shows how a company is saving a lot of money with the services of Network.com. And there is also good news from an IDC report.
AT&T will use Sun servers and Sun StorageTek arrays for its new Internet Protocol (IP)-based video service, AT&T U-verse TV. AT&T is expanding its infrastructure as it offers more video and multimedia to its customers.
The goal of Project Indiana is to create a new distribution of OpenSolaris that is more familiar to users of GNU/Linux. The distribution will focus on providing a single CD install with the basic core operating system and desktop environment, with the opportunity of installing additional software off network repositories.
The OpenSolaris website features many links to presentations made at recent meetings. The Eleventh Irish OpenSolaris User Group Meeting has posted an MP3 audio of the "Lightning" talks. See the site for links.
The BM Seer blog asserts the "1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T1 chip is 10 percent faster than the IBM POWER6 chip." The table on the blog compares the Sun Blade T6300 with IBM's p570, Dell's PowerEdge 840 and 860, and Fujitsu's TX150 and RX100. See the processors and the performance side by side.
Download the distribution that offers firmware and software supporting the Sun Blade X6250 server module. This release includes support for Solaris 10 11/06 Operating System (Solaris OS), Red Hat 4 U4, Red Hat 5, SUSE 10 and 9 SP3, VMWare ESX Server 3.0.1, and Windows Server 2003 operating systems.
Sun Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM) is the standard System Controller (SC) for remote out-of-band management for entry-level servers. Version 1.6.5 can be installed on the Sun Fire V125, V210, V215, V240, V245, V250, V440, V445 and Netra 210, 240 and 440 servers. It contains two bug fixes.
To learn how to create a desktop Java application through which you can access and update a database, see the tutorial on the NetBeans IDE site titled "Building a Java Desktop Database Application."
A new Flash demo is posted on Roumen's Blog, "Extending OpenOffice.org With NetBeans IDE" (July 3, 2007 entry), that explains how to create a new function for the Calc spreadsheet software using NetBeans IDE.
In the book, "Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think," each chapter is written by a different computer scientist who explains how they worked on certain designs and solved problems, sometimes by breaking the rules.
Two NFS developers from Sun, Tom Haynes and Doug McCallum, present a solution they and the NFS team came up with to deal with the impact that scaling has on Network File System (NFS) performance and how to manage it.
What are the advantages of multithreading? Which products from Sun make use of these advantages? Answers to these questions and more about Sun's multithreaded strategies and products can be found gathered together in one place: on the Sun Developer Network (SDN) site in a technical article by Nagendra Nagarajayya.
Phil Harman posted his slides from his talk about the history of the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) at the Sun HPC Consortium in Dresden despite the fact that his slides are "pretty minimalist" by his own admission. Another Sun blogger, Josh Simons, described the talk Harman gave.
There are many options within the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) that can be used to build a secure server. Author Kristy Westphal explains some of the elements such as containers, RBAC, BART and ipfilter.
Java Development Kit (JDK) 6, update 2 (also called Java SE 6 Update 2 and also referred to as JDK 6u2) is now available. It includes Java Runtime Environment (JRE), command-line development tools that are useful for developing applets and applications, the new look and feel for the JDK installer, as well as number of fixes designed to ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the platform.
There is a new audio transcript from the 2007 JavaOne Conference technical session TS-1205, "The Sun Java Real-Time System Meets Wall Street." Presenters Jim Clark and Jim Conners of Sun discuss how Sun's implementation of the Real-Time Specification for Java enables real-time processing through techniques that protect important threads from garbage collection and other system interrupts.
A how-to online walks you through a project to learn JavaFX. JavaFX is a new scripting language that Sun introduced an alpha version of in May 2007. The how-to article is "Learning JavaFX : Starting an IDE Project, Compiling and Building a Small Example".
Did you know that the "Security Target" part of the Common Criteria EAL4+ CC evaluation that IBM and Red Hat are getting tested will not test key features and will reduce the functions available to the user? That assertion comes from Jim Laurent on his blog (June 25, 2007), who lists the features and compares them to what the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) with Trusted Extensions will be tested for.
Four vulnerabilities in the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) were posted by the SANS Institute July 2, 2007: TCP Loopback/Fusion Code Vulnerability; Vulnerability in dtsession(1X) CDE Session Manager; KSSL Kernel Module; and Solaris libsldap Library.
See the list of FAQs about Solaris Trusted Extensions, multilevel systems (MLS) from Sun for the most common questions. Solaris Trusted Extensions implements labels to protect your data and applications based on their sensitivity level.
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