Along with the rest of the OpenSolaris downloads made available today, was a new Solaris Express: Community Edition, which like the current Solaris Express is...
Along with the rest of the OpenSolaris downloads made available today, was a new Solaris Express: Community Edition, which like the current Solaris Express is based on the "Nevada" development branch of Solaris. While the bits released are the same, the community edition comes out more often, and with less testing first, to allow building, testing and debugging OpenSolaris with the same bits the engineers have internally. Once testing is done, one out of every two or three...
Along with the rest of the OpenSolaris downloads made available today, was a new Solaris Express: Community Edition, which like the current Solaris Express is based on the "Nevada" development...
Fixed 9 year old bug in usermod(1m).usermod: ERROR: username is in use. Cannot change it (for 9 years!)I thought some people might find this small bug fix...
Fixed 9 year old bug in usermod(1m).usermod: ERROR: username is in use. Cannot change it (for 9 years!)I thought some people might find this small bug fix interestingnow that OpenSolaris is open for business to all. It is in those class of things that really onlyget fixed because it anoys an engineer so much one day that they fixit. The problem with is one was this had been the behaviour since dayone (SunOS 5.0) and the bug (1236941)was logged on 1996-02-02 and marked as an...
Fixed 9 year old bug in usermod(1m).usermod: ERROR: username is in use. Cannot change it (for 9 years!)I thought some people might find this small bug fix interestingnow that OpenSolaris is open...
As you may have noticed, the release of the first big batch of code from OpenSolaris project today is being accompanied by blogs from many of the Solaris...
As you may have noticed, the release of the first big batch of code from OpenSolaris project today is being accompanied by blogs from many of the Solaris engineers. When you read these blogs you'll see most of the engineers are writing about the parts of the code they know best. Unfortunately, for me, that's the parts not yet released. (There are a couple of lines of code here and there from me that I submitted as suggested fixes in bugs I filed, but I've never checked in any...
As you may have noticed, the release of the first big batch of code from OpenSolaris project today is being accompanied by blogs from many of the Solaris engineers. When you read these blogs you'll...
If you are looking for crypto related code in OpenSolaris today you might be a little disapointed since not all of it is present yet. Let me assure you that we...
If you are looking for crypto related code in OpenSolaris today you might be a little disapointed since not all of it is present yet. Let me assure you that we (me in particular) are working very hard to get it included. It is probably easiest to understand if I explain some history related to the Solaris source and what we intend to do about it so we can get you full access to the cryptographic frameworks and the algorithm implementations.Even prior to the startup of the...
If you are looking for crypto related code in OpenSolaris today you might be a little disapointed since not all of it is present yet. Let me assure you that we (me in particular) are working very...
An overview of the Solaris DHCP serverWith the launch of OpenSolaris,one thing that comes along for the ride is our DHCPserver. This is somewhat significant,...
An overview of the Solaris DHCP serverWith the launch of OpenSolaris,one thing that comes along for the ride is our DHCPserver. This is somewhat significant, in that the only otherwidely-used implementation of a DHCP server that's open-source is theone provided by ISC. We'll leave comparisons between the two for another day, as the pointtoday is to take a look at how the Solaris server is implemented.First, some history, because some people probably wonder why we don'tjust...
An overview of the Solaris DHCP serverWith the launch of OpenSolaris,one thing that comes along for the ride is our DHCPserver. This is somewhat significant, in that the only otherwidely-used...
I've had this post sitting in my draft folder for a little over a month now, trying to figure out what to say, so I guess I might as well finish it up or delete...
I've had this post sitting in my draft folder for a little over a month now, trying to figure out what to say, so I guess I might as well finish it up or delete it. A few weeks ago, I was surprised to be called up on stage by John Loiacono in front of a room full of the leaders of Sun's Software division and presented me with the quarterly award for Collaboration for the January-March quarter. That's the quarter Solaris 10 shipped, and I was recognized for work that went into...
I've had this post sitting in my draft folder for a little over a month now, trying to figure out what to say, so I guess I might as well finish it up or delete it. A few weeks ago, I was surprised...
So now that nVidia has released their Solaris x86 drivers, a problem I've been working on recently will probably become more noticable. The Xinerama calls used...
So now that nVidia has released their Solaris x86 drivers, a problem I've been working on recently will probably become more noticable. The Xinerama calls used by CDE & JDS on Solaris aren't compatible with the protocol used by the Xorg server. Back in the early days of Xinerama, a number of people noticed that the protocol originally delivered in X11R6.4 didn't meet all the needs of application and window manager developers, so proposals were made to extend it....
So now that nVidia has released their Solaris x86 drivers, a problem I've been working on recently will probably become more noticable. The Xinerama calls used by CDE & JDS on Solaris aren't...
The other presentation at the Bay Area OpenSolaris users group this week was a demonstration of Looking Glass running on a Solaris laptop. This demonstration...
The other presentation at the Bay Area OpenSolaris users group this week was a demonstration of Looking Glass running on a Solaris laptop. This demonstration took advantage of the new nVIDIA drivers for the Xorg server on Solaris 10. It was a fantastic demo and I'm so glad to see Looking Glass running on Solaris. This new driver also brings multi head support from a single card and TV out, something that the opensource ATI driver can do but the nVIDIA one can't.Okay ATI the...
The other presentation at the Bay Area OpenSolaris users group this week was a demonstration of Looking Glass running on a Solaris laptop. This demonstration took advantage of the new nVIDIA...
Last night I gave a presentation that I titled "OpenSolaris for security geeks" at the OpenSolaris user group on the Sun Santa Clara campus. This presentation...
Last night I gave a presentation that I titled "OpenSolaris for security geeks" at the OpenSolaris user group on the Sun Santa Clara campus. This presentation will make a bit more sense once the code for OpenSolaris is visible to everyone (it has paths to where in the source tree you find certain functionality). For now I'll put up the PDF that I presented last night. It covers privileges and the cryptographic framework in more detail than most other stuff. Once we go live...
Last night I gave a presentation that I titled "OpenSolaris for security geeks" at the OpenSolaris user group on the Sun Santa Clara campus. This presentation will make a bit more sense once the code...
