Oracle Open World is coming to San Francisco October 22-25! With it being less than a month away, I wanted to preview Oracle Solaris this year. With the release...
Oracle Open World is coming to San Francisco October 22-25! With it being less than a month away, I wanted to preview Oracle Solaris this year. With the release of Oracle Solaris 11.4 on August 28, 2018, we have much to talk about. For information about the future of Oracle Solaris and SPARC, Bill Nesheim, Senior Vice President of Oracle Solaris Development is joined by Massod Heydari, Senior Vice President of Hardware Development, and Brian Bream, Chief Technology Officer of...
Oracle Open World is coming to San Francisco October 22-25! With it being less than a month away, I wanted to preview Oracle Solaris this year. With the release of Oracle Solaris 11.4 on August...
Contributed by: Pavel Heimlich and Ales Cernosek Oracle Solaris 11.4 delivers a modern and extensible enterprise desktop environment. The desktop environment...
Contributed by: Pavel Heimlich and Ales Cernosek Oracle Solaris 11.4 delivers a modern and extensible enterprise desktop environment. The desktop environment supports and delivers an IBus (Intelligent Input Bus) runtime environment and libraries that enable customers to easily customize and build Open Source IBus Input Method Engines to suit their preference. This article explores the step-by-step process of building one of the available IBus input methods - KKC, a Japanese...
Contributed by: Pavel Heimlich and Ales Cernosek Oracle Solaris 11.4 delivers a modern and extensible enterprise desktop environment. The desktop environment supports and delivers an IBus (Intelligent...
The examples shown in this blog post were created and executed on a Solaris system. Some of these tips and examples are applicable to all *nix systems. Digest...
The examples shown in this blog post were created and executed on a Solaris system. Some of these tips and examples are applicable to all *nix systems. Digest of a File One of the typical uses of computed digest is to check if a file has been compromised or tampered. The digest utility can be used to calculate the digest of files. On Solaris, -l option lists out all cryptographic hash algorithms available on the system. eg., % digest -l sha1 md5 sha224 sha256 .. sha3_224...
The examples shown in this blog post were created and executed on a Solaris system. Some of these tips and examples are applicable to all *nix systems. Digest of a File One of the typical uses...
Oracle Solaris 11.4: The trusted business platform. I'm pleased to announce the release of Oracle Solaris 11.4. Of the four releases of Oracle Solaris that I've...
Oracle Solaris 11.4: The trusted business platform. I'm pleased to announce the release of Oracle Solaris 11.4. Of the four releases of Oracle Solaris that I've been involved in, this is the best one yet! Oracle Solaris is the trusted business platform that you depend on. Oracle Solaris 11 gives you consistent compatibility, is simple to use and is designed to always be secure. Some fun facts about Oracle Solaris 11.4 There have been 175 development builds to get us to Oracle...
Oracle Solaris 11.4: The trusted business platform. I'm pleased to announce the release of Oracle Solaris 11.4. Of the four releases of Oracle Solaris that I've been involved in, this is the best...
Help! I am trapped by my Old Application Which Cannot Change. I need to update my Oracle Solaris 11 system to a later Update and/or Support Repository Update...
Help! I am trapped by my Old Application Which Cannot Change. I need to update my Oracle Solaris 11 system to a later Update and/or Support Repository Update (SRU) but I find upon the update my favourite FOSS component has been removed. My Old Application Which Cannot Change has a dependency upon it and so no longer starts. Help! Oracle Solaris, by default, will ensure that the software installed on the system is up to date. This includes the removal (uninstall) of software...
Help! I am trapped by my Old Application Which Cannot Change. I need to update my Oracle Solaris 11 system to a later Update and/or Support Repository Update (SRU) but I find upon the update...
Keywords: Solaris package IPS+Repository pkg 1 Work on Directory Structure Start with organizing the package contents (files) into the same directory...
Keywords: Solaris package IPS+Repository pkg 1 Work on Directory Structure Start with organizing the package contents (files) into the same directory structure that you want on the installed system. In the following example the directory was organized in such a manner that when the package was installed, it results in software being copied to /opt/myutils directory. eg., # tree opt opt `-- myutils |-- docs | |-- README.txt | `-- util_description.html |-- mylib.py |--...
Keywords: Solaris package IPS+Repository pkg 1 Work on Directory Structure Start with organizing the package contents (files) into the same directory structure that you want on the installed...
As we continue to work toward release of Oracle Solaris 11.4, we present to you our third release of Oracle Solaris 11.4 open beta. You can download it here, or...
As we continue to work toward release of Oracle Solaris 11.4, we present to you our third release of Oracle Solaris 11.4 open beta. You can download it here, or if you're already running a previous version of Oracle Solaris 11.4 beta, make sure your system is pointing to the beta repo (https://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/beta/) as its provider and type 'pkg update'. This will be the last Oracle Solaris 11.4 open beta as we are nearing release and are now going to focus our...
As we continue to work toward release of Oracle Solaris 11.4, we present to you our third release of Oracle Solaris 11.4 open beta. You can download it here, or if you're already running a...
The Solaris audit_binfile(7) module for auditd provides the ability to specify by age (in hours, days, months etc) or by file size when to close the currently...
The Solaris audit_binfile(7) module for auditd provides the ability to specify by age (in hours, days, months etc) or by file size when to close the currently active audit trail file and start a new one. This is intended to be used to ensure any single audit file doesn't grow to large. What this doesn't do is provide a mechanism to automatically age out old audit records from closed audit files after a period of time. Using the SMF periodic service feature (svc.periodicd)...
The Solaris audit_binfile(7) module for auditd provides the ability to specify by age (in hours, days, months etc) or by file size when to close the currently active audit trail file and start a...
Our colleagues in the Oracle Linux organisation have a nice writeup of their support for Python, and how to get cx_Oracle installed so you can access an Oracle...
Our colleagues in the Oracle Linux organisation have a nice writeup of their support for Python, and how to get cx_Oracle installed so you can access an Oracle Database. I thought it would be useful to provide an equivalent guide for Oracle Solaris, so here it is. Oracle Solaris has a long history of involvement with Python, starting at least 15 years ago (if not more!). Our Image Packaging System is about 94-95% Python, and we've got about 440k LoC (lines of code) written in...
Our colleagues in the Oracle Linux organisation have a nice writeup of their support for Python, and how to get cx_Oracle installed so you can access an Oracle Database. I thought it would be useful...
