Components:
- SunOS 5.7
- OpenWindows 3.6.1
- CDE 1.3
Releases:
- Solaris 2.7 Beta: Spring 1998
- Solaris 7 Final Release: October 27, 1998
- The name was changed from 2.7 to Solaris 7 shortly before release for
marketing reasons
- Solaris 7 3/99 (Maintenance Update 1)
- Solaris 7 5/99 (Maintenance Update 2)
- Solaris 7 8/99 (Maintenance Update 3)
- Solaris 7 11/99 (Maintenance Update 4)
- Upgraded from X11R6 to X11R6.4, CDE enhancements (ToolTips, PDASync, Print Client)
Old hardware no longer supported:
- x86 Micro Channel Bus Architecture [see Solaris 2.6 Release Notes]
- Graphics devices: MG1/MG2 (bwtwo), CG2, CG4, TC (cg8), ZX/TZX (leo) [see Solaris 2.6 Release Notes]
- The "2." was dropped from the version name since Sun had no plans for
changes so major and incompatible to justify a Solaris 3.0 release,
and was running out of unambigous 2.x numbers (2.10 can be read as
either "two point ten" or "two point one zero", one of which implies
an upgrade from 2.9, the other does not). (Plus Sun marketing was rumored
to want to point out Solaris 7 > NT 5, but then Microsoft renamed NT 5
to Windows 2000 the next week.)
- UFS filesystem upgraded to support logging without requiring DiskSuite
- 64-bit memory addressing (on UltraSparc's only)
- sendmail 8.9.1
- bind 8.1.2
- man pages converted from nroff to sgml format (see Solaris 2.6 Release Notes)
- Seperate x86 driver updates & sparc hardware releases discontinued. Instead
Update releases will be issued for both platforms every few months with
new features, new hardware support, and integrated patches.
- Several new commands added:
- pgrep/pkill process management command
- Info-ZIP unzip
- traceroute
- Solaris Desktop Extensions merged into CDE 1.3