Posts tagged with: 200906

I was a little early this morning with my post about upgrading as technically OpenSolaris 2009.06 hadn't been released. Well it has now. Check out the official release announcement for a different "What's New and links to the various downloads. Oh yes, and SPARC support is now officially included too.

Links of interest for 12 May 2009 - 1 Jun 2009: Sun Security Toolkit at OpenSolaris.org - The SST (aka JASS) is now open source (under CDDL) and available for OpenSolaris too. Parallel Patching for Solaris 10 - Chris Armes's Weblog - This is a godsend if you've got a system with a lot of zones that needs patching. You can expect patch for patchadd for this sometime in June so you can get parallel patching before S10u8 What's New in OpenSolaris 2009.06 - The presentation slides used by Peter Dennis at Community One Sun seeks to build world's biggest... Continue reading ►

The pkg repositories have now been updated to included the 2009.06 pkgs (What's New preso - PDF). There is no need to perform a clean install, you can just use the Update Manager GUI to update your OpenSolaris 2008.11 release to 2009.06. There is one teeny weeny issue that you may encounter - the Update Manager GUI may tell you that there are no new pkgs available. Sadly, the solution isn't clear or intuitive from the GUI: you need to update the SUNWipkg pkg first. The CLI is clearer about this and tells you that you need to update this... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 25 Mar 2009 - 2 Apr 2009: Toshiba OpenSolaris Laptops - You can now get your hands on the much touted Opensolaris Toshiba laptops. Sadly, it#039;s US only at the mo with UK availability expected sometime in May 2009. I guess I#039;ll have to wait a bit, but it#039;ll be good to start hearing the reviews to see how these things run. Accelerated Patching of Zoned Systems - Woohooo!!!! Patching of systems with zones is about to get a lot quicker. Jeff provides some good data here just to whet your appetite in anticipation of the... Continue reading ►