Entries tagged with 'Solaris-10'

If you think Solaris patching is a complete nightmare, have a bit of spare time on your hands (don’t worry, you can still check emails etc) and really want to get up speed on Sun’s best practices for patching on Solaris 10, then check out the FREE Solaris 10 Patching Best Practices (WS-2700-S10) training course.
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Sun has quietly released Solaris 10 10/09 (aka update 8 ) and it is now available for download. As usual, the “What’s New” doc has all the gory details of what’s new in this release, but for the lazy, here’s a quick summary of some of the more significant new features:

You can now install [...]

I was going to provide details for compiling GAIM 2 / Pidgin on Solaris 10, as I did for GAIM 1.3.0 - 1.5 in my article entitled “HOWTO: Compile GAIM on Solaris 10“, but this no longer necessary as GAIM is upgraded to Pidgin on Solaris 10 when patch 119548-11 (SPARC) or 119549-11 (x86) is applied.

UPDATE: SunAlert 102802 and IDR/ISR official patches for this issue have been released:

Ooops, how embarrassing, Solaris 10/OpenSolaris has a very silly stupid vulnerability in in.telnetd/login that has come to light.
Essentially, you can get access to a remote Solaris 10/OpenSolaris system (which has telnet enabled) without any prompts or fancy tricks by simply using [...]

Solaris 10 11/06 (aka Update 3) is now available for download from the Sun Download site. Go grab it now.
Oh, and if you are using zones today and plan to upgrade to Solaris 10 11/06, please read the answer to the question “How do I upgrade a system with zones installed?” in the zones [...]

That’s right - you can get your hands on a FREE Solaris 10 and Sun Studio Software Media Kit
For a limited time, Sun Microsystems is giving away a DVD media kit which includes the Solaris 10 Operating System (6/06 aka Update 2) for both SPARC and x86 platforms as well as Sun Studio 11 software [...]


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