It's Oracle standard practice to release quarterly Critical Patch Updates (CPUs) containing security fixes. These scheduled releases enable customers to plan...
It's Oracle standard practice to release quarterly Critical Patch Updates (CPUs) containing security fixes. These scheduled releases enable customers to plan maintenance windows. Solaris now conforms to this practice and Solaris OS CPUs are now available. The Solaris OS CPU is an archived snapshot of the Solaris OS Recommended Patch Cluster. Please note that the Solaris OS bug fixing processes have not changed. Security and other bugs continue to be fixed as soon as...
It's Oracle standard practice to release quarterly Critical Patch Updates (CPUs) containing security fixes. These scheduled releases enable customers to plan maintenance windows. Solaris now conforms...
The Solaris "Recommended" and Sun Alert Patch Clusters have been merged (June 4th 2010). The merged clusters are called the "Recommended OS Cluster Solaris...
The Solaris "Recommended" and Sun Alert Patch Clusters have been merged (June 4th 2010). The merged clusters are called the "Recommended OS Cluster Solaris <release> <architecture>", for example "Recommended OS Cluster Solaris 10 SPARC". The old "Recommended" and Sun Alert Patch Clusters only ever contained Solaris OS patches (with rare exceptions), so we've added "OS" to the new merged cluster name to make this a little clearer. The merged Recommended OS Clusters have the...
The Solaris "Recommended" and Sun Alert Patch Clusters have been merged (June 4th 2010). The merged clusters are called the "Recommended OS Cluster Solaris <release> <architecture>", for example...
This blog entry has nothing to do with patching and everything to do with volcanoes.I traveled home to Dublin, Ireland, on Tuesday April 13th from the Warsaw...
This blog entry has nothing to do with patching and everything to do with volcanoes.I traveled home to Dublin, Ireland, on Tuesday April 13th from the Warsaw Oracle Sun Customer Welcome Event which was canceled due to the tragic plane crash in Russia.Enough time to repack for a weekend away with the wife and 3 kids in Madrid. Flew to Madrid on Wednesday 14th to arrive to news on CNN and BBC World that a volcano was erupting in Iceland.By Thursday airports in Northern Europe,...
This blog entry has nothing to do with patching and everything to do with volcanoes.I traveled home to Dublin, Ireland, on Tuesday April 13th from the Warsaw Oracle Sun Customer Welcome Event...
This isn't specifically to do with patching, but here's an interesting article from Intel detailing some of the work Intel and Sun have been doing to maximize...
This isn't specifically to do with patching, but here's an interesting article from Intel detailing some of the work Intel and Sun have been doing to maximize Solaris performance on "Nehalem" Xeon 5500 series systems, enabling Solaris to leverage the advanced features of the chip set. Please note that this does not in any way imply anything negative about SPARC. Solaris is committed to supporting both x86/x64 and SPARC architectures to give you choice.
This isn't specifically to do with patching, but here's an interesting article from Intel detailing some of the work Intel and Sun have been doing to maximize Solaris performance on "Nehalem" Xeon...
As the software license agreement terms were updated last week upon Sun becoming a wholly owned subsiduary of Oracle, customers who use 'wget' to automate patch...
As the software license agreement terms were updated last week upon Sun becoming a wholly owned subsiduary of Oracle, customers who use 'wget' to automate patch downloads from SunSolve will need to login in once to SunSolve and accept the updated software license agreement before they can continue to use 'wget'. Please note that some popular patch automation tools such as Traffic Light Patching (TLP) and the 3rd party 'pca' tool use 'wget' and hence this notice is...
As the software license agreement terms were updated last week upon Sun becoming a wholly owned subsiduary of Oracle, customers who use 'wget' to automate patch downloads from SunSolve will need to...
Firstly, please allow me to get something off my chest: HALLELUJAH!!! It's been a long wait and we're finally there! I, for one, am tickled pink. There's likely...
Firstly, please allow me to get something off my chest: HALLELUJAH!!! It's been a long wait and we're finally there! I, for one, am tickled pink. There's likely be a lot of changes for all of us in the coming months, some good, some maybe controversial to some folk, but I passionately believe that Oracle will bring much needed commercial sense which will ensure that Solaris and Sun-Oracle hardware continues to innovate like hell to provide the solutions you, our customers,...
Firstly, please allow me to get something off my chest: HALLELUJAH!!! It's been a long wait and we're finally there! I, for one, am tickled pink. There's likely be a lot of changes for all of us in...
As I've mentioned in a previous posting, Veritas now supports Solaris Live Upgrade. Please see here for details.
I'd just like to make the following clear to customers: Customers who install packages from one Update release (e.g. S10U6) ona system installed with another...
I'd just like to make the following clear to customers: Customers who install packages from one Update release (e.g. S10U6) ona system installed with another release (e.g. S10U3) risk corrupting their system. You must not install packages from one Update release onto a system installed with any other Update release. The reason for this is that all available patches are pre-applied intoall packages for each Update release. Patches and packages have amany-to-many...
I'd just like to make the following clear to customers: Customers who install packages from one Update release (e.g. S10U6) ona system installed with another release (e.g. S10U3) risk corrupting their...
I'm delighted to announce the availability of 10 new free online patch training modules. This is the result of a lot of work from those nice people in Sun...
I'm delighted to announce the availability of 10 new free online patch training modules. This is the result of a lot of work from those nice people in Sun Learning Services, the Install Revenue Product Engineering (RPE, a.k.a. Sustaining) team, and my own folk. The modules concentrate on using Live Upgrade for patching, as well as providing background on Deferred Activation Patching, Kernel patches, and other useful information. You can access the modules as follows: Direct...
I'm delighted to announce the availability of 10 new free online patch training modules. This is the result of a lot of work from those nice people in Sun Learning Services, the Install...
