Posts tagged with: gui

The OpenSolaris/dev repository was updated yesterday to reflect the changes in snv_108 for both x86/x64 and SPARC platforms (announcement). I updated my VirtualBox instance this morning, which went without a hitch until it came to rebooting. The OS rebooted without any problems, however it didn't seem to get beyond the "loading" screen that appears just after Grub. It would however boot quite successfully into multi-user mode when in text-mode. I poked and prodded and for the life of me, I couldn't find any problems, so I went back to the announcement email and I found the cause of my ... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 9 August 2007 - 6 September 2007: BIND 8 Has been EOLd - ISC have announced BIND 8 is End of Life as of 27 August 2007 and is encouraging everyone move to BIND 9. I wonder if Sun will be backporting BIND 9 to Solaris 8 and 9, or opting to run their own patch stream until these OSes are EOLd. NetApp Hits Sun With Patent Infringement Lawsuit - I can't help feel this is NetApp showing it's fear of ZFS and Sun's future products based on ZFS. Why else would they file the patent... Continue reading ►