SCO UNIX Operating System Update April 2 2003
























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SCO UNIX® Operating System Update April 2, 2003 1
SCO UNIX® System Strategy Continue to provide our Partners and Customers: § Highly reliable, trusted products § A committed long term development roadmap for: § SCO Open. Server § SCO Unix. Ware 2
SCO Unix. Ware 7. 1. 3 John T. Maciaszek Product Manager (jtmace@sco. com) 3
SCO Unix. Ware § Flagship UNIX System Platform § High Performance § Scales From Small Business Server to Data Center Class Machine § Reliability: 99. 999% § Optional High Availability Clustering § Excellent Platform for High Transaction Applications &/or Data Base Application Server § Multiple Personality for Server Consolidation § Runs UNIX, Windows, Linux applications 4
Unix. Ware Release Status § Unix. Ware 7. 1. 3 Started Shipping Dec. 2002 § § Maintenance Pack 1 - Avail ( Download and Media Kit) Update Pack 1 - April (SCO Update Customers) Maintenance Pack 2 - May Approx. 1 per quarter § Unix. Ware 7. 1. 2 (OU 8) § Maintenance Pack 5 Available for Download § Will be retired on 30 June 03 § Unix. Ware 7. 1. 1 § Maintenance Pack 3 Available for Download § Retirement Planned for Sept. 30, 2003 5
Unix. Ware 7. 1. 3 Feature Highlights § Improved hardware support including USB & removable media § Enhanced networking, including performance & scalability improvements § Support for popular Open Source network applications § Maintenance and security fixes § Installation improvements § Enabled for electronic maintenance & updates § Optional services updates 6
Unix. Ware 7. 1. 3 Plans § Update Packs at Regular Intervals (~Quarterly) § For SCO Update Service Licensees § New Features § Enhanced Maintenance § Additional Fixes which would normally be delivered with the next OS release § Basic Maintenance included as well, i. e. content which will be in next Maintenance Pack § Last Pack is Next Release (UW 7. 1. 4) § Basic Maintenance Packs § Priority Fixes § Scheduled to follow Update Packs § New and Updated Drivers and Updated Open Source Components § Open Server Personality (OKP 1. 0) 7
Unix. Ware Family Roadmap Q 2 ‘ 03 Q 1 ‘ 03 Q 4’ 02 Calendar Quarters Q 3 ‘ 03 Q 4 ‘ 03 Q 2’ 04 2 H 04 UW 713 UW 714 UP 1 UP 2 UP 3 UP 4 UP 1 UP 2 UP 3&4 Unix. Ware 713 (EN, DE, FR, SP, JA, KOR) Unix. Ware 714 (EN, DE, FR, SP, , JA, KOR) UW 713 MP 1 UW 713 MP 2 UW 713 MP 3 RELIANT HA UDATE 1. 1. 3 UW 714 MP 1 MP 2 UW 713 MP 4 RELIANT HA UDATE 1. 1. 4 OKP 1. 1 FOR UW 714 OKP 1. 0 FOR UW 713 OU 8 MNT PK 5 UW 711 MNT PK 3 Deliverable and supportable or in final test/manufacturing 8 Q 1 ‘ 04 Contracted Support OU 8 RETIRED UW 711 RETIRED Contracted Support Not deliverable or supportable. May be used as a technology preview or BETA. Development /Planning
Unix. Ware 7. 1. 3 Plans Update Pack 1 Contents - April 03 § § § Enhanced PPP Scalability Printable Documentation Automatic Doc. View Index Generation Emergency Recovery support for IDE CDR or CDRW tcpdump enhancements § Enhanced Maintenance 9
Unix. Ware 7. 1. 3 Future Plans (cont’d) § Update Pack 2 Candidates - Target 7/03 § Native Mozilla Browser § SCO Admin Improvements: § Disk Management § Desktop Default § § § 10 Sound Card Support SCO Admin DNS enhancements and fixes cdrtools pro FTP Upgrade Basic PCI Serial Support Enhanced Maintenance
Unix. Ware 7. 1. 3 Future Plans (cont’d) § Update Pack 3 Candidates - Target 9/03 § § § Improved print queue support - native cups USB Printer Support Perl Upgrade Sendmail upgrade Open LDAP § SCO Admin Improvements § PPP Manager § Serial Manager § Enhanced Maintenance § Update Pack 4 Candidates - Target 12/03 § IPSEC/VPN § Enhanced Maintenance 11
Open. Server Kernel Personality (OKP) § Open. Server environment support on Unix. Ware 7. 1. 3 § Provides application compatibility § Includes separate Xenix compatibility module § Similar technology to Linux Kernel Personality § § System call support in the kernel for performance Binary compatibility (linker, loader, etc. ) Dual rooted Host/Open. Server filesystem view OSR 5 core libraries and environment installed in OSR 5 filesystem tree § Supports system migration § copy live OSR 5 system to UW 713 (OS and apps) § install new OSR 507 system on UW 713 § Planned as a downloadable component for UW 713 § Target May 03 12
SCO Open. Server Release 5. 0. 7 Paul Hurford Product Manager (paulhu@sco. com) 13
SCO Open. Server • • 14 Classic Small Business and Replicated Site Server Platform • Remote Administration Huge Application Base Reliable, Robust and Trusted platform for business Cost Effective Solution • Built for Intel Servers
SCO Open. Server Roadmap 2001 Q 1’ 02 Q 2’ 02 Q 3’ 02 SLS SLS Q 4’ 02 Q 1’ 03 Q 2’ 03 Q 3’ 03 OSR 5. 0. 7 UPDATE PK 1 OSR 5. 0. 7 UPDATE PK 2 Shipping Now Open. Server 5. 0. 6 a 5. 0. 7 Security Fixes Update Packs will be Released in 4 month intervals Merge 5. 3. x Deliverable and supportable or in final test/manufacturing 15 Not deliverable or supportable. May be used as a technology preview or BETA. Development /Planning
Open. Server 5. 0. 7 New Features Improved Hardware support: §USB support integrated and enhanced: § § §USB 2. 0 support (EHCI) §USB 1. 1 support (OHCI, UHCI) §Bootable USB CDs §Class Drivers for §Hubs, Keyboard, Mice, CD-ROMS, Floppy, Mass storage devices, LS-120 and LS-240 UDMA 100/133 support Writeable EIDE CD-RW Support (Microlite, Corp. ) New and updated PC-Card and Card-Bus support PCI serial and parallel card support for legacy free platforms § LS-120, LS-240 support 16
Open. Server 5. 0. 7 New Features § Uniform Driver Interface (UDI) Supplement updated and integrated § New and updated graphics, network, and HBA drivers § New Network Services § Samba, Squid, Open. SSL, Open. SSH § Updated Network Services § BIND, FTP, IP Filter § Apache updated and integrated (with XML, PHP, mod_perl) § § § 17 New online documentation system - Doc. View Updated portions of libc from UW 7. 1. 3 New GNU compilers, debug, linkers, libraries New Java JDK 1. 3. 1 Mozilla Lynx
Open. Server 5. 0. 7 New Features § Java runtime installed in the base product § gwxlibs – a collection of libraries that make it much easier to port Open Source software to Open. Server § New UDK 7. 1. 3 (OUDK Successor) § Maintenance and Security fixes § Enabled for Electronic Maintenance and Updates § Volution Manger(VM) Client Bundled With OS § Allows VM to distribute and manage maintenance and new SCO Update Service packs 18
Open. Server 5. 0. 7 Optional Services § New Merge 5. 3 § Supports Windows 98 and Me emulation § Open Source Components Added & Supported § AFPS § Samba § Squid 19
Development Systems for Open. Server § Open. Server Development System - OSR Base CD § For development of legacy apps and native device drivers § Unix. Ware Development Kit – Separate CD in OSR Media Kit § Cross development platform § GNU Compiler - OSR Base CD § For development of Open Source applications and New application development 20
Net. Traverse Merge 5. 3 § Runs Windows applications under OSR and Unix. Ware § Brings Windows 98 and Me applications to UNIX § Runs native Windows as a guest OS § Windows applications run exactly as native. § Multiple users each have own copy of Windows in a virtual PC § Available for § Unix. Ware 7. 1. 3 and 7. 1. 2 § SCO OSR 5. 0. 7 and 5. 0. 6 a § Trade-In Pricing Available § Must Do fresh Install for this new version 21
Net. Traverse Merge 5. 3 New Features § § § § 22 Support for Windows Me and Windows 98 New and more flexible window resizing options Automatic creation of D: drive for user data DHCP over VNET with Open. Server Serial line speeds up to 115, 200 baud Increased available Windows memory to 128 Mb Sound support with Open. Server Wheel Mouse Support
Open. Server Plans Update Packs Available at Regular Intervals § Update Pack 1 Candidates § Hyper-threading for support of new Intel platforms § ACPI (partial support) § BIND 9 (security) § CPU chipset support for 4 ghz § SSE/SSE 2/SIMD register preservation for multi-media § New SCSI, Fibre Channel, Video and Gb Ethernet Drivers § 23 Target: June/July, 2003 § Update Pack 2 Candidates § § § § § Apache 2 USB Printer Class Driver Mozilla update Sendmail update Perl update Samba 3 Printable Documentation Joliet Support using normal unicode characters Target: Early 4 Q 03
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