The new-boot SPARC putback has been announced, bringing dboot, ramdisk-based booting and the ramdisk miniroot to SPARC. According to Tim Foster, the importance in this development is that it "paves the way for ZFS Boot on SPARC!"
aMSN, a free, open source MSN Messenger clone, has been ported to Solaris, Colin Zou announced in his blog. aMSN has a web site from which the application, plug-ins and skins can be downloaded. Features can be easily added to aMSN with plug-ins, and its look can be completely changed with different skins.
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