Entries tagged with 'OpenSolaris'

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 [...]

Links of interest for 5 Nov 2009 - 2 Dec 2009:

J is for JVM: Why the ‘J’ in JRuby? | Engine Yard Blog - A good explanation on why the guys behind jRuby like the J, aka Java Virtual Machine, part of JRuby. Interesting performance figures too when compared to the standard Ruby, especially considering [...]

I encountered a problem this evening that I can’t really explain, I couldn’t install any pkgs via the Package Manager or command line. Both were failing with the same error:

$ pfexec pkg install SUNWant
Creating Plan -
pkg: The following pattern(s) did not match any packages in the current catalog.
Try relaxing the pattern, refreshing and/or examining [...]

Links of interest for 17 Oct 2009 - 2 Nov 2009:

ZFS Deduplication : Jeff Bonwick’s Blog - Deduplication has just made its way into ZFS and Jeff provides a great explanation on what dedup it and why you need it, along with details on how to use it with ZFS.
ZFS for MacOS X - One [...]

I’ve just had a “how cool is this” moment. I was browsing through the zfs(1M) man page on OpenSolaris and spotted this excerpt…
vscan=on | off

Controls whether regular files should be scanned for
[...]

I’ve just managed to successfully compile and install the microblog-purple Pidgin plugin on OpenSolaris (so I can use Twitter and Identi.ca from Pidgin). Sadly, the installation wasn’t the prettiest of things, but the important part is the new protocol library files compiled successfully and work a treat.
For the curious, it was a simple matter [...]

Links of interest for 2 Sep 2009 - 24 Sep 2009:

IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office - Welcome to the party IBM. Sun did this years ago. 99% of people don't use half the functionality in MS Office anyway.
Linus calls Linux ‘bloated and huge’ - … and it's suffered on average a 2% decrease in performance [...]

I’m please to announce folks that you have one less excuse to use Linux in favour of OpenSolaris… you can now run Spotify on OpenSolaris, granted not natively, but in the same way you can on Linux: with Wine.
The process is really easy:

Switch to the dev repository (http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/) either via the CLI or within the [...]

Links of interest for 3 Jun 2009 - 14 Jul 2009:

“Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?” FUD - Thankfully someone's being sensible about the FUD that made it's way into the news this week. Oracle is not going to kill OpenSolaris.
Oracle’s Virtualization Gold Mine - Looks like Oracle is counting on Virtualization big [...]

I work with a couple of guys who are quite stuck in their ways and are quite reliant on old tools, one of which is xclipboard(1).
Unfortunately, Gnome comes with it’s own clipboard manager, so when you try to run xclipboard, you get the following:
$ xclipboard
Error: another clipboard is already running
$
Of course, ps(1M) will show no [...]