Habari has some pretty stringent requirements that need to be met. Thankfully Joyent’s Shared Accelerator (and I believe all other) accounts meets all of these already so there’s no need to install any additional software or log tickets to get software updated. You will however need to make some configuration changes which I’ll [...]

OpenSolaris has now been updated to build 93, which I believe is actually the preview build for OpenSolaris 2008.11 (though this may change), and best of all ISOs are being generated again and are available via BitTorrent.
Unfortunately, you still can’t update via the Package Manager so you need to update via the CLI as before, [...]

Wooohooo!! purple-remote (used for controlling Pidgin from the command line) is now in Nevada and works. For some reason purple-remote wasn’t included when Pidgin replaced GAIM on Solaris. I’m not sure which build it was introduced in, but it’s definitely there in build 93. CR 6578100 still needs to be updated to reflect [...]

This is probably an old one, but I’ve just discovered and think it’s pretty cool.
Open up a terminal on your Mac and copy and paste the following into the terminal and press enter:
osascript -e ’say “oh This is a silly song silly song silly song this is the silliest song ive ever ever heard So [...]

He’s a little bit of helpful advice: if you are installing Oracle, adding a new instance to an already running installation, or tuning the SGA/PGA sizes on Solaris 10, and you find you get the following on starting that instance:
On the screen …

SQL> startup
ORA-27102: out of memory
SVR4 Error: 22: Invalid argument

… and in the Oracle [...]

I’ve just updated my home installation of OpenSolaris 2008.05 with all the snv_90 bits (using my own instructions) and it’s gone all quite smoothly. Don’t try it if you’re on dial-up or have a small bandwidth cap as the update downloaded is just short of 1GB of data.
For those interested, he’s the output from the [...]

Updated packages for snv_90 were pushed to the pkg.opensolaris.org repository over the weekend, so you can update your OpenSolaris 2008.05 installation to the latest revs.
There are some gotchas though…

I encountered a bit of a challenging question today…
Suppose I have Solaris 10 1/06 (update 1) installed and I’ve patched it with various patches that are actually provided as part of a much later release, for example Solaris 10 11/06 (update 3). Will I have to reapply those patches if I perform a live [...]

OpenSolaris 2008.05, aka “Project Indiana” will be officially released to the world later today (US time), but it’s already available now for download from it’s dedicated site - www.opensolaris.com.
For the uninitiated, I’ll quote the OpenSolaris docs…