While all of the Solaris excitement at Phoronix as of late has been around Solaris Express Developer 1/08 and the forthcoming release of OpenSolaris 2008.05, today Sun Microsystems has announced the immediate release of Solaris 10 5/08.

This update to their Solaris OS includes major enhancements for those running Intel hardware, a number of new features, updated applications, the introduction of Solaris OnDemand, and updated drivers.

Much of the marketing materials surrounding Solaris 10 5/08 have to do with the Intel improvements found in this release, thanks to the collaboration going on between Sun and Intel for the past year. This collaboration has led to Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Support for Solaris 10, fault management support for Predictive Self-Healing, optimized support for Intel processors running Solaris OS, xVM virtualization optimizations, and new graphics and networking driver support.

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