Components:
- SunOS 5.5
- OpenWindows 3.5
- CDE 1.0
- Wabi 2.1
Releases:
- Initial Release: November 1995
- Hardware Release: January 1996
- Added support for Creator3D graphics cards
Supported Hardware Platforms:
- SPARC: sun4c, sun4m, sun4d, sun4u
- Intel x86 (up to & including Pentium Pro)
- PowerPC
Newly supported hardware:
Changes from Solaris 2.4:
- NFS Version 3 server & client
- NFS over TCP server & client
- UFS Access Control Lists (ACLs) - extended file access permissions per POSIX.6
- CDE (Common Desktop Environment) added
- sendmail upgraded from 5.x to 8.6.x
- POSIX.1c thread libraries
- doors introduced, but interface not publically documented
- X/Open Federated Naming (XFN) services added
- nscd added, using doors to cache results to getpw*(), getgr*(), and gethostname*() calls
- a number of BSD programs and calls moved from /usr/ucb & libucb to /usr/bin & libc
- Kodak Color Management System (KCMS)