Where Should I Begin?

This book is organized in such a way that you need only read Chapter 3 “What is New at a Glance” for a quick overview of what is new, has changed, and has been deprecated or obsoleted in the HP-UX 11i v3 release.

Chapter 3 contains two sets of summaries: one for customers migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 and one for customers migrating from HP-UX 11i v2. Choose the set that is most appropriate to your own situation.

Each summary in the set contains a very high-level sampling of the changes for a single product or feature. If you wish to learn more about the changes to the product or feature, follow the cross-reference to the section in the remainder in the book where more details are provided.

Each product/feature section in the remainder of the document is divided into the following subsections:

Description of the Product/Feature
Summary of Change
- What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?
- What’s New for Customers of HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006?
Impact
Compatibility
Performance
Documentation
Obsolescence

What is in the Remaining Chapters?

The remaining chapters of these release notes are as follows:

Chapter 2 “Introduction to HP-UX 11i Version 3”, provides an overview of the Operating Environments, along with information compatibility and compatibility issues.
Chapter 3 “What is New at a Glance”, furnishes a quick overview of what is new, has changed, or has been deprecated or obsoleted in this release.
Chapter 4 “Hardware-Specific Information”, presents information regarding supported systems, networking and mass storage cards and drivers, as well as other information that is hardware-specific.
Chapter 5 “General System Administration”, includes information of particular interest to system administrators.
Chapter 6 “Disk and File Management”, presents information regarding directory, file system, and disk management.
Chapter 7 “Internet and Networking”, covers changes to networking functionality and Internet services.
Chapter 8 “Security”, covers changes and enhancements to security services.
Chapter 9 “Commands and System Calls”, includes information about new and changed commands and system calls.
Chapter 10 “Libraries and Programming”, provides information of particular interest to programmers, including changes to compilers, editors, and libraries.
Chapter 11 “Internationalization”, presents information about text fonts and converters relating to various international languages.
Chapter 12 “Other Functionality”, includes additional applications or functionality in the Operating Environments.

Where Should I Begin?

Technical documentation

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What is in the Remaining Chapters?