New features in NW6.5

I found a beta release of SP3 for NW6.5 and started scrolling through the documentation. I found a couple of interesting features.

New OS features
  • Formatting local FAT volumes from console
  • Scrolling the System Console screen with a SERVER switch (-cs)
  • Suppressing unwanted screens from console screen-cycle (alt-esc, not ctrl-esc)
BASH for Netware

Apparently it's included in the release! This has been on the forge site for some time.

More IP6 features

Still not fully featured IP6 quite yet, but it shows the folks in Provo are thinking about it.

Enhanced management of core-dumps from the Remote Manager

SDebug has been around for a while, but they're improving how easy it is to deal with it. Though I'm not sure, it also looks like they're improving the 'who can do what' features in NRM. Nifty.

Some of this stuff looks like back-ports from the work to get OES 1.0 off the ground. Nice to see. There isn't a beta for NW6.0 out that I can find quite yet so no idea if this'll be in there. It should imagine some of it would be since the codebase between NW6.0 and NW6.5 is pretty close.