OpenSolaris is there !
http://opensolaris.org/ is now fully … open. Which means that Solaris code is fully available. So much for all the no-sayers. The first immediate unbelievable link is the source browser. Being...
View ArticleFirst OpenSolaris Distribution available
Schillix is the name. What is great about it is the ability to boot from it, similar to what Knoppix allows you to do with Linux. So you can try out OpenSolaris without having to install it to your...
View ArticleOpenSolaris & the new BOOT architecture
Maybe the first Huge feature to come up on Solaris Express, the preview of the next official version of Solaris, is the new-boot architecture, the complete new way of booting Sun Machines, be it...
View ArticleOpenSolaris : how to build and install it ?
Very useful for those who want to try the next release of Solaris or just want to take advantage of the new features ( one of them being the use of the new Boot infrastructure ( Grub ) ). Step by step...
View ArticleA tool to display the SMF service dependencies
scfdot is a new tool capable of representing the service graph of SMF services in a variety of formats. An example graph and all the necessary information is available in the opensolaris website. Go...
View ArticleZFS : repository of information
Updated May 5, 2007 Updated Apr 12, 2007 Updated Nov 7, 2006 Updated Dec 8, 2005 Basic Information : links giving some general information about ZFS. ZFS, Sun’s Cutting-Edge File System (Part 1:...
View ArticleXen officially in Solaris !
Xen is an hypervisor technology. What it basically means is that it allows to run several different Operating Systems on one machine. A popular commercial hypervisor is VmWare. XEN is an open-source...
View ArticleRunning Linux in Solaris 10 zones
Sun finally announced what they want to do with the “Janus” project. As a reminder, it lets Linux applications ( binaries ) run unmodified on a running Solaris machine. Well, integration is a major...
View ArticlePostgres officially in Solaris
Postgres is one of the oldest and most advanced Open Source Database available today. If you need Solaris but don’t need Oracle, this news is good news ! Related link : Sun’s Postgres for Solaris page
View ArticleMoving & cloning Solaris zones
A view of things to come, Jerry Jelinek, who recently moved to the Zones team, has recently submitted a proposal to implement two new functionalities for zones : Moving a zone by specifying a new...
View ArticleSolaris Crypt : better password hashing algorithms
From Solaris 9 update 2, a new framework was introduced that would make it possible to select among a number of hash algorithms the famous one that would be used to compute the encrypted version of...
View ArticleTowards a useful Solaris GUI for System Administration
Sun is not known to be a great developer of GUI applications. The best example is probably the unlikely suite of administration tools offered to Solaris sysadmins along the years. Now that “admintool”...
View ArticleHowto : running OpenSolaris/Solaris 10 on top of VmWare
For those who cannot afford to reinstall their machines and have no spare computers, it is a good solution… View the Howto T: OpenSolaris, VmWare
View ArticleThe definitive SMF document
Finally a document aggregates the SMF information that was disseminated everywhere on the internet. This very good document from Rob Romack covers the following topic : - SMF basics - SMF components -...
View ArticleFault Manager now supports reporting faults to SNMP Net Mgt servers
Keith Wesolowski recently announced that the Fault Management subsystem is now capable of : 1. sending basic fault information to a Network Management Server. Provides the same information than the...
View ArticleAzureus for Solaris x86
Now that I want to download OpenOffice for Solaris x86 to compare it with the StarOffice suite provided with Solaris 10, I see that the download is available as a torrent. The problem is that Solaris...
View ArticleSolaris 10 (finally) running on Acer Aspire 9424
With a new job comes a new laptop. I went for Acer Aspire 9424WSMi. It of course comes with Windows Media Center preinstalled. Because I’m gonna work with production Solaris machines, I decided that...
View ArticleOpenSolaris & Sun Secure Global desktop
Oddly enough, it appears that using Sun Secure Global desktop (SGD) from OpenSolaris doesn’t work from scratch. When my browsers try to connect to the server after authenticating, the browser never...
View ArticleCentOS 3.9 running in an lx branded zone
Recently tried the Linux Branded zone within OpenSolaris, part of the BrandZ project, added to Solaris 8/07. It is said to be working with only a defined number of Linux distributions, namely CentOS...
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