Posts Tagged with 'opensolaris'

Interesting links for 5 Mar 08 - 9 Mar 08:

Records tumble in Proteas’ win - Ooo, that's got to have hurt Bangladesh. They were savaged by South Africa
Researchers discover gene that blocks HIV - Looks promising if it turns out to be a viable option for the future.
Low-tech Magazine: A world without trucks - Some [...]

Interesting links for 19 Feb 08 - 28 Feb 08:

Solaris Features: Service Management Facility - A great introductory tutorial on Solaris 10's "Service Management Facility" (SMF).
PIN Entry Device (PED) vulnerabilities - So Chip And PIN is not quite a secure as the banks would have you believe, and something as simple as not trying to [...]

I spent most of this week upgrading all the software on my work machine and in the process went through the laborious steps up recompiling Gaim. I started with some instructions provided on one of the internal pages here at work and got Gaim 1.5.0 to build successfully, and then went on to build [...]

Yesterday, Sun released build 27 OpenSolaris out into the wild for all to download. This release brings another world first, and a change in the way sysadmins manage their storage, for this release now includes ZFS - the filesystem that WILL change the world. Say “Good-bye” to the days of fsck, silent [...]

Seems OpenSolaris is gaining a lot of popularity since Sun made is public and now there’s a new distro called Nexenta OS which is a GNU/Solaris install instead of a GNU/Linux install. For those that aren’t too techie minded - when you hear someone talking about Linux, they are actually refering to GNU/Linux. [...]

A quick tip for all Solaris 10/OpenSolaris users… some companies have a strict requirement to know exactly what each and every startup script does on their system. With releases of Solaris 9 and earlier, one would check the rc scripts. This is time consuming and may not give an accurate description or one [...]

Yesterday, I finally got myself on the path to OpenSolaris. I spent a fair part of my day off sorting out my home PC so I could install the latest release of Solaris Express (Solaris 11 snv_19). This is needed as a base to which I’ll eventually build OpenSolaris.
The process was pretty painless, [...]