Entries tagged with '2009.06'

I was a little early this morning with my post about upgrading as technically OpenSolaris 2009.06 hadn’t been released. Well it has now. Check out the official release announcement for a different “What’s New and links to the various downloads.
Oh yes, and SPARC support is now officially included too.

Links of interest for 12 May 2009 - 1 Jun 2009:

Sun Security Toolkit at OpenSolaris.org - The SST (aka JASS) is now open source (under CDDL) and available for OpenSolaris too.
Parallel Patching for Solaris 10 - Chris Armes’s Weblog - This is a godsend if you've got a system with a lot of zones that [...]

The pkg repositories have now been updated to included the 2009.06 pkgs (What’s New preso - PDF). There is no need to perform a clean install, you can just use the Update Manager GUI to update your OpenSolaris 2008.11 release to 2009.06.
There is one teeny weeny issue that you may encounter - [...]

Links of interest for 25 Mar 2009 - 2 Apr 2009:

Toshiba OpenSolaris Laptops - You can now get your hands on the much touted Opensolaris Toshiba laptops. Sadly, it#039;s US only at the mo with UK availability expected sometime in May 2009. I guess I#039;ll have to wait a bit, but it#039;ll be [...]