Following on to last week's release of Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 14, we've updated the Solaris listing in the Orace Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Marketplace to make...
Following on to last week's release of Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 14, we've updated the Solaris listing in the Orace Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Marketplace to make pre-built 11.4 SRU 14 images available, in addition to the Solaris 11.4 GA images previously available. This will make it easier than ever to use the latest Solaris version in OCI! With this update we've also taken the opportunity to re-organize our listing a bit. Rather than the separate virtual machine and bare...
Following on to last week's release of Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 14, we've updated the Solaris listing in the Orace Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Marketplace to make pre-built 11.4 SRU 14 images...
Since our last update on Oracle Solaris and Oracle Java we've been getting more questions, so we wanted to write a quick blog to share the latest on this topic....
Since our last update on Oracle Solaris and Oracle Java we've been getting more questions, so we wanted to write a quick blog to share the latest on this topic. There are a lot of applications out there running on Oracle Java SE 8 and Oracle Java SE 11, these are mature and widely adopted platforms. As you can see on the Oracle Java SE Support Roadmap, Oracle is committed to supporting these releases until at least 2025 and 2026 respectively. In addition, this page notes:...
Since our last update on Oracle Solaris and Oracle Java we've been getting more questions, so we wanted to write a quick blog to share the latest on this topic. There are a lot of applications out...
Ever since the initial delivery of the Image Packaging System (IPS) during the development of Oracle Solaris 11 it has been tightly integrated with Boot...
Ever since the initial delivery of the Image Packaging System (IPS) during the development of Oracle Solaris 11 it has been tightly integrated with Boot Environments; this provides a safe, reliable upgrade/rollback facility. Naming of the boot environments was left to the administrator. How do you choose a "good" name for your BE ? If you are following the Oracle Solaris 11 SRU train then using the release and SRU number as part of the BE is a good start. The name of a BE...
Ever since the initial delivery of the Image Packaging System (IPS) during the development of Oracle Solaris 11 it has been tightly integrated with Boot Environments; this provides a safe,...
We got you covered on your way to Oracle Solaris 11 OS The Oracle Solaris 11 Operating System (OS) platform provides major improvements over earlier releases in...
We got you covered on your way to Oracle Solaris 11 OS The Oracle Solaris 11 Operating System (OS) platform provides major improvements over earlier releases in areas critical to our customers, including gains in security, compliance, performance, virtualization, and observability. There are important business reasons for you to adopt the Oracle Solaris 11 OS release, including that it is much easier to manage and it can help to lower your cost to run and maintain your IT...
We got you covered on your way to Oracle Solaris 11 OS The Oracle Solaris 11 Operating System (OS) platform provides major improvements over earlier releases in areas critical to our customers,...
It's now been one year since the GA release of Oracle Solaris 11.4. During that time, we've released 12 Support Repository Updates (SRUs), with the latest,...
It's now been one year since the GA release of Oracle Solaris 11.4. During that time, we've released 12 Support Repository Updates (SRUs), with the latest, SRU12 (aka 11.4.12) coming out last week. These releases have included hundreds of updates to the bundled FOSS packages, over 2500 bug fixes, and over 300 enhancements. One area a few of us have been working on lately is making improvements to the standard C library, libc, that increase compatibility with the Linux & BSD...
It's now been one year since the GA release of Oracle Solaris 11.4. During that time, we've released 12 Support Repository Updates (SRUs), with the latest, SRU12 (aka 11.4.12) coming out last...
We're pleased to announce that Oracle Solaris 11.4 images are now available in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Marketplace! This means that customers of...
We're pleased to announce that Oracle Solaris 11.4 images are now available in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Marketplace! This means that customers of OCI IaaS can run Solaris workloads in the cloud with full support from Oracle, which is included in your IaaS subscription. There are two images, one for bare metal and another for virtual machines, and they're available in all OCI regions. Using the Solaris images is very simple. In the OCI console, select the...
We're pleased to announce that Oracle Solaris 11.4 images are now available in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Marketplace! This means that customers of OCI IaaS can run Solaris workloads in...
In my previous blog on the REST API in Oracle Solaris I showed how you can enable the remote REST interface on Oracle Solaris and connect to it. I also...
In my previous blog on the REST API in Oracle Solaris I showed how you can enable the remote REST interface on Oracle Solaris and connect to it. I also mentioned the REST API is layered on top of the Remote Administration Daemon (RAD) so it gives you access to all its modules. In this blog I wanted to highlight the IPS RAD module and how you can use it through the REST interface to do some common IPS tasks using it. Where in the previous blog I showed the initial REST calls...
In my previous blog on the REST API in Oracle Solaris I showed how you can enable the remote REST interface on Oracle Solaris and connect to it. I also mentioned the REST API is layered on top of the...
I'm pleased to be able to announce progress on our latest FIPS 140 validation of the Cryptographic Framework in Oracle Solaris. The version of the...
I'm pleased to be able to announce progress on our latest FIPS 140 validation of the Cryptographic Framework in Oracle Solaris. The version of the Cryptographic Framework in Oracle Solaris 11.4 is now listed as an Implementation Under Test for FIPS 140-2. Previous releases of Oracle Solaris 11 have been validated to FIPS 140-2 on SPARC and x86 hardware. For Oracle Solaris 11.4 the implementation of the Cryptographic Framework in userspace, underwent a fairly significant...
I'm pleased to be able to announce progress on our latest FIPS 140 validation of the Cryptographic Framework in Oracle Solaris. The version of the Cryptographic Framework in Oracle Solaris 11.4 is...
One of the things that makes Oracle Solaris unique is how easily and transparently it can deal with different memory page sizes, officially Multiple Page Size...
One of the things that makes Oracle Solaris unique is how easily and transparently it can deal with different memory page sizes, officially Multiple Page Size Support (MPSS) introduced eons ago in Oracle Solaris 9. This to say the support for using larger memory pages than the standard page size (4KB on x86 and 8KB on SPARC). Anything larger than this smallest page size is seen as a "Large Page". The reason these large pages are important is for performance. As systems grew...
One of the things that makes Oracle Solaris unique is how easily and transparently it can deal with different memory page sizes, officially Multiple Page Size Support (MPSS) introduced eons ago...
