Posts tagged with: operating-systems

One question that is bound to cross people's minds now Solaris 11 Express is out:  Continue reading ►

As you may already know Oracle Solaris 11 is coming around about this time next year (I'm guessing @ 11:11 on 11 Nov '11 - NOTE: I have NO knowledge of the actual release date) and to help you prepare for the change and get you up to speed, Oracle has released the first build of Oracle Solaris 11 Express 2010.11.  Continue reading ►

After nearly a year since the last release of Solaris 10 (10/09), the latest release - Solaris 10 9/10 (aka update 9) is now available for download and it includes quite a lot of new features and of course the new Oracle branding. At this time it hasn't actually been announced, but I suspect it will be in this webcast later today.  Continue reading ►

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.  Continue reading ►

Last night saw quite a significant announcement for the OpenSolaris community: the announcement of Illumos.  Continue reading ►

Yesterday Oracle announced that Dell and HP will certify and resell Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM on their respective x86 platforms. What wasn't clear from this was how this affects other vendors.  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.  Continue reading ►

It's amazing what you discover whilst working a weekend shift with a bit of time to spare. Whilst perusing through the shell scripts used as part of the Sun in-house built VPN solution (Oracle are giving it the chop in favour of Cisco SSL AnyConnect client which doesn't officially work on Solaris x86 - it does with the help of openconnect though ;-) ), I discovered a little easter egg in ping(1M).  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.  Continue reading ►

First off, let me make it clear that I don't know much more about this topic than you do and will only be commenting on what is public knowledge pulling in my experiences as a support engineer.  Continue reading ►