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...
We've just released Oracle Solaris 11.3 SRU 33. It's available from My Oracle Support Doc ID 2045311.1, or via 'pkg update' from the support repository at...
We've just released Oracle Solaris 11.3 SRU 33. It's available from My Oracle Support Doc ID 2045311.1, or via 'pkg update' from the support repository at https://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/support . The following components have been updated to address security issues: HMP has been updated to 2.4.4.0 curl has been updated to 7.59.0 GNU binutils has been updated to 2.30 GNU patch has been updated to 2.6.7 Firefox has been updated to 52.8.0esr Thunderbird has been updated to...
We've just released Oracle Solaris 11.3 SRU 33. It's available from My Oracle Support Doc ID 2045311.1, or via 'pkg update' from the support repository at https://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/support ....
[Admins] Device Removal From a ZFS Storage Pool In addition to removing hot spares, cache and log devices, Solaris 11.4 has support for removal of top-level...
[Admins] Device Removal From a ZFS Storage Pool In addition to removing hot spares, cache and log devices, Solaris 11.4 has support for removal of top-level virtual data devices (vdev) from a zpool with the exception of a RAID-Z pool. It is possible to cancel a remove operation that's in progress too. This enhancement will come in handy especially when dealing with overprovisioned and/or misconfigured pools. Ref: ZFS: Removing Devices From a Storage Pool for examples....
[Admins] Device Removal From a ZFS Storage Pool In addition to removing hot spares, cache and log devices, Solaris 11.4 has support for removal of top-level virtual data devices (vdev) from a zpool...
Back in 2014, I posted Moving Oracle Solaris to LP64 bit by bit describing work we were doing then. In 2015, I provided an update covering Oracle Solaris 11.3...
Back in 2014, I posted Moving Oracle Solaris to LP64 bit by bit describing work we were doing then. In 2015, I provided an update covering Oracle Solaris 11.3 progress on LP64 conversion. Now that we've released the Oracle Solaris 11.4 Beta to the public you can see the ratio of ILP32 to LP64 programs in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin in the full Oracle Solaris package repositories has dramatically shifted in 11.4: Release 32-bit 64-bit total Solaris 11.0 1707 (92%) 144 (8%) 1851...
Back in 2014, I posted Moving Oracle Solaris to LP64 bit by bit describing work we were doing then. In 2015, I provided an update covering Oracle Solaris 11.3 progress on LP64 conversion. Now...
We've just released Oracle Solaris 11.3 SRU 29. It contains some important security fixes and enhancements. SRU29 is now available from My Oracle Support Doc ID...
We've just released Oracle Solaris 11.3 SRU 29. It contains some important security fixes and enhancements. SRU29 is now available from My Oracle Support Doc ID 2045311.1, or via 'pkg update' from the support repository at https://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/support . Features included in this SRU include: libdax support on X86 This feature enables the use of DAX query operations on x86 platforms. The ISV and Open Source communities can now develop DAX programs on x86 platforms....
We've just released Oracle Solaris 11.3 SRU 29. It contains some important security fixes and enhancements. SRU29 is now available from My Oracle Support Doc ID 2045311.1, or via 'pkg update' from the...
Oracle Solaris 11.4 Beta (#solaris114beta) was released earlier this week, here is the announcement blog in case you missed it. There are lots of updates in...
Oracle Solaris 11.4 Beta (#solaris114beta) was released earlier this week, here is the announcement blog in case you missed it. There are lots of updates in this release, including many improvements that simplify development and our ELF and linker support. Check out these excellent posts from our very own Ali Bahrami to learn more!
Oracle Solaris 11.4 Beta (#solaris114beta) was released earlier this week, here is the announcement blog in case you missed it. There are lots of updates in this release, including many improvements...
One of the more subtle changes with Oracle Solaris 11.4 is the identity of the Operating System - namely the output of uname(1). Obviously we are not changing...
One of the more subtle changes with Oracle Solaris 11.4 is the identity of the Operating System - namely the output of uname(1). Obviously we are not changing the release - this is still SunOS 5.11 which brings along the interface stability levels that Oracle Solaris has delivered for decades. However, in part based upon customer feedback, and in part internal requirements, the version level now displays finer grained information: $ uname -v 11.4.0.12.0 If we compare this to...
One of the more subtle changes with Oracle Solaris 11.4 is the identity of the Operating System - namely the output of uname(1). Obviously we are not changing the release - this is still SunOS 5.11...
Portions Contributed by: Glenn Faden Oracle Solaris Zones provide a robust security boundary around all processes running inside of them. Non-global (aka...
Portions Contributed by: Glenn Faden Oracle Solaris Zones provide a robust security boundary around all processes running inside of them. Non-global (aka native) Zones were designed to provide Operating System level virtualisation so they present a complete user space isolation with separate file system namespaces and IP stack, etc while running on a shared kernel. Sometimes it is desirable to wrap an additional security boundary around an application to reduce the risk of it...
Portions Contributed by: Glenn Faden Oracle Solaris Zones provide a robust security boundary around all processes running inside of them. Non-global (aka native) Zones were designed to...
During the Oracle Solaris 11 launch (November 2011) one of the questions I was asked from the audience was from a retail customer asking for documentation on...
During the Oracle Solaris 11 launch (November 2011) one of the questions I was asked from the audience was from a retail customer asking for documentation on how to configure Oracle Solaris to pass a PCI-DSS audit. At that time we didn't have anything beyond saying that Oracle Solaris was secure by default and it was no longer necessary to run the Solaris Security Toolkit to get there. Since then we have produced a PCI-DSS white paper with Coalfire (a PCI-DSS QSA) and we...
During the Oracle Solaris 11 launch (November 2011) one of the questions I was asked from the audience was from a retail customer asking for documentation on how to configure Oracle Solaris to pass a...
