Posts tagged with: opensolaris

Oracle's silence on the future of OpenSolaris planted the seeds of thought on the future of OpenSolaris and brought on a lot of speculation. Well, last week an email was leaked which confirmed everyone's fears: OpenSolaris is dead. We will distribute updates to approved CDDL or other open source-licensed code following full releases of our enterprise Solaris operating system. In this manner, new technology innovations will show up in our releases before anywhere else. We will no longer distribute source code for the entirety of the Solaris operating system in real-time while it is developed, on a nightly basis. [...] ... Continue reading ►

Last night saw quite a significant announcement for the OpenSolaris community: the announcement of Illumos. We first got a whiff of something brewing in the pipes last week when an email was sent to opensolaris-announce advertising the announcement of something called Illumos. Speculation ran rife about the possibility of what Illumos would be with many guessing it would be a fork of OpenSolaris or another OpenSolaris based distribution. Well, last night we found out that it's neither. Illumos is in fact a "downstream" project to create a fully open-source-licensed, independently run version of the OpenSolaris operating system and networking ... Continue reading ►

I've just noticed a new PSARC case, PSARC 2010/291: zonestat, that I know a lot of people will find very very useful. To quote the summary from the PSARC: This fast-track proposes the addition of a command line tool to facilitate the observation of system resources consumed by Solaris Zones. The tool is specifically designed to observe the following: 1. Memory and cpu utilization of zones. 2. Utilization of resource control limits. 3. Resource utilization versus physical resources and versus configured limits. 4. Various cpu-related resource partitioning schemes, such as processor sets, pools, fair share scheduler, and cpu-caps. 5. Total... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 6 Jul 2010 - 23 Jul 2010: Oracle Solaris Support on HP Proliant and BladeServers - c0t0d0s0.org - I think Oracle may have seen the light and realised there's actually good money in offering Solaris support on 3rd party hardware. Time will tell if this is extended to other vendors. /dev/dump: Please Be Patient - Be patient folks. Looks like we'll be hearing a bit more from Oracle re OpenSolaris in early August. WordPress And Thesis Go To Battle. Mullenweg May Sue. - The outcome of this will be interesting and certainly tests the interpretation of... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 20 May 2010 - 30 Jun 2010: Sun’s Lost Intel-Chip Killer - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - So that's why Sun bought Montalvo. Somehow I don't think Sun would have been able to make the return on these had they come to market, but nice to know Sun's untold ambitions are coming to light. LCA: How to destroy your community [LWN.net] - Oh how true. Why the Digital Economy Act simply won't work - I think Cory Doctorow sums it up beautifully at the end... "Once you swallow a spider to catch a fly, you're on... Continue reading ►

As with Linux, Firefox and Thunderbird are available for Solaris and OpenSolaris in a variety of forms: supplied with the OS, installed separately from a pkg and installed separately from a tarball (both available from Mozilla.org). Of these, the only way you can get any sort of automatic update is with the first option: via an OS update and this tends to lag behind the available releases by quite some margin. Well, that's about to change, at least for some people. I'll get straight into the technical details and leave the background behind all of this to the very end. This post and the accompanying code was inspired by this article on Mozilla Developer Center. Update: Ooops, it would seem the automatic update DOES work by default for the tarball downloads, it just doesn't offer an automatic upgrade between 3.5.x and 3.6.x as I was testing. I'll leave the rest of this post as is as an "education" for those wanting to implement their own internal crude update system. Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 22 Apr 2010 - 19 May 2010: Chrome Incognito Tracks Visited Sites - Lewis showed me this yesterday morning before posting this blog post. Guess incognito mode isn't as forgetful as you thought. Funny Photoshop Crash Reports - It's amazing what people write in these crash reports. Oracle on ZFS Whitepaper - Quite a useful whitepaper on running Oracle on ZFS. Warning, it's a PDF. Special Report: Can That Guy in Ironman 2 Whip IBM in Real Life? - Some great hard hitting quotes from Larry Ellison explaining exactly why Sun became such an easy takeover... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 9 Mar 2010 - 21 Apr 2010: C language inventor spurns Google's language exam - Hey, maybe Google has a point, maybe Ken's gone crazy and forgotten everything, but highly unlikely. Apache Foundation Hit by Targeted XSS Attack - Wow!! What a detailed account of what happened. It's quite refreshing to see such an open account of a system hack. Nobody Killed OpenSolaris — Stop the FUD! - Nice to see someone outside of Sun/Oracle is actually seeing sense. Multicore requires OS rework, Windows architect advises - Errmm, I must be missing something here: doesn't Solaris... Continue reading ►

Is it just me or has NWAM lost the "M", ie the magic, in snv_135? I've recently updated and whilst the NWAM functionality has apparently been enhanced (there's way more configuration stuff now) and a more functional GUI implemented, for the life of me I can't get it to reliably connect to my home wifi network. I need to poke and prod it to come to life on each boot. Time to go digging to see if I can work out why. Update: This has now been resolved in snv_138 - it was a problem with the WPA svc not... Continue reading ►

If you've ever had to setup and troubleshoot NIS+, you'll know what a nightmare it can be and quite frankly how unreliable it is unless you're 100% accurate with all your configuration and settings and really know what you're doing. Well, you'll also be pleased to know NIS+ is also finally DEAD!!! Sun have been been advising that NIS+ will be removed from a future release of Solaris for quite some time in the various docs on docs.sun.com (like the Naming and Directory Services guide which deals with setting up NIS+) and they've finally pulled the plug. NIS+ is no ... Continue reading ►