HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2007 Release Notes

IMPORTANT: HP-UX 11i v2 May 2005 was last release that included the Minimal Technical OE
(MTOE). After May 2005, the HP-UX 11i v2 MTOE is no longer available. If you have questions,
contact your HP sales representative.
HP-UX 11i v2 Technical Computing Operating Environment
The Technical Computing Operating Environment contains all the base functionality that is
common to the other three OEs, including the base 64-bit HP-UX operating system, network
drivers, and other always-installed functionality. From the December 2005 release and forward,
the Technical Computing OE for HP-UX 11i v2 is available only for technical servers.
The HP-UX 11i v2 Technical Computing OE includes the following features. (For an overview
of the features that are new or have changed in this release, see Chapter 3: “What is New at a
Glance” (page 39).)
Always-Installed Features
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• HP 3D Technology for the Java 2 Standard Edition Platform (Itanium ®-based systems only)
• HP Message Passing Interface (MPI)
• HP MLIB
• HP-UX 3D Graphics Run Time Environment and Developer’s Kit (Workstations not
supported)
• Runtime Plug-in (JPI) for Mozilla for the Java™ 2 Platform v1.4
• Technical System Configuration (TechSysConf)
• Also see “Always-Installed Features” (page 30)
Default-Installed Features
• See “Default-Installed Features” (page 31)
Selectable Features
• See “Selectable Features” (page 32)
Software Pack (Optional HP-UX 11i v2 Core Enhancements)
The HP-UX 11i v2 Software Pack (SPK) contains optional core enhancements for HP-UX 11i v2.
For the December 2007 release of HP-UX 11i v2, there is no media release of SPK. However,
several SPK products have been released in 2007 on the web, and one product has been released
on the December 2007 Application Release (AR) media, as well as the web:
• Released in 2007 on the web:
— “BIND” (page 146) (updated)
— “HP-UX Memory File System” (page 138) (updated)
— “HP-UX Parallel Umounts” (page 139) (new)
— “Kerberos Client” (page 154) (updated)
• Released in December 2007 on the AR Media and on the web:
— “PCI Error Handling” (page 100) (updated)
You can download SPK products from the HP Software Depot:
• Go to http://hp.com/go/softwaredepot.
• Search for SWPACKv2 (use the search box).
• Click HP-UX Software Pack (Optional HP-UX 11i v2 Core Enhancements). At this site, you
can read descriptions of specific products, as well as download them.
3. For definitions of always-installed, default-installed, and selectable, see “HP-UX 11i v2 Software and Driver Bundle
Types” (page 29).
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