Posts tagged with: solaris

Many applications, like Oracle 11g, need larger than default process values for things like stack size and file descriptors and normally document it in their installation guides. Oracle 11gR2 is very vague about how to configure the "shell limits" and instead concentrates on telling you what it expects and how you can check the current values using ulimit(1).  Continue reading ►

Solaris zones are a great invention and a brilliant use of a system's resources, but there's always been one little niggle that has annoyed sysadmins and application vendors:  Continue reading ►

I use zsh as my preferred shell. It's been a while since I last updated my zsh profile and thought I'd look into implementing some useful command completion to try and make my life easier. I was particularly interested in zfs(1M), zoneadm(1M), pkg(1M), svcs(1M) and svccfg(1M). Well, imagine my surprise when I discovered most of my work has already been done for me.  Continue reading ►

For a long long time now Solaris has maintained a Binary Compatibility Guarantee. In short this is a guarantee that any application built according to recommended guidelines using documented interfaces on an older release of Solaris will run on a newer release of Solaris with minimal, often no, modification. This is one of the places Solaris trumps Linux. You won't get such a guarantee from any Linux vendor.  Continue reading ►

How would you like to run Solaris, Windows or even Linux on your iPad? I know, it's sad and geeky and you probably don't want to, however sometimes you need to do real work for a short period of time with what resources are at hand, namely your iPad.  Continue reading ►

Oracle Solaris 11 Express 2010.11 Support Repository update 1 (SRU1) is now available on the Oracle external support repository (https://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/support).  Continue reading ►

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

This one is definitely going to bite a few people, especially those that have got used to pfexec on OpenSolaris.  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 ►

With the release of Solaris 10 9/10 many people will be downloading and setting up their environments to perform the upgrade and installs of this new release. As you may know by now, Solaris 10 9/10 now has Oracle Solaris Auto Registration functionality.  Continue reading ►