To make sure you're not missing out I'm giving a quick heads-up on some good technical content. So, over the last few months we held a few technical Oracle...
To make sure you're not missing out I'm giving a quick heads-up on some good technical content. So, over the last few months we held a few technical Oracle Solaris events, one virtual and two in person. (I had talked about this is a previous blog.) The first, a Virtual Seminar on Continuous Innovation in Oracle Solaris 11.4, was held on April 25th, and even though it was well attended in live form we wanted to make sure you know that the recording can still be viewed, even if...
To make sure you're not missing out I'm giving a quick heads-up on some good technical content. So, over the last few months we held a few technical Oracle Solaris events, one virtual and two in...
In the coming months we have some really nice in person events coming your way. First thing I wanted to mention is that we will be holding two Oracle Solaris...
In the coming months we have some really nice in person events coming your way. First thing I wanted to mention is that we will be holding two Oracle Solaris TechDays in on April 29th in Dubai and on May 14th in Prague. These TechDays are all day events with in-depth presentations and demonstrations on various Oracle Solaris technologies and features, and how to use them. What also makes these TechDays special is that the presentations are given by Bill Nesheim -- the VP of...
In the coming months we have some really nice in person events coming your way. First thing I wanted to mention is that we will be holding two Oracle Solaris TechDays in on April 29th in Dubai and on...
Guest Author: Petr Sumbera As you may know, a new OpenJDK 12 was released which you might want to try on Oracle Solaris. There are already some great blog posts...
Guest Author: Petr Sumbera As you may know, a new OpenJDK 12 was released which you might want to try on Oracle Solaris. There are already some great blog posts out by Martin Mueller and Andrew Watkins describing how to build recent OpenJDK versions from sources. But there is an issue. To build OpenJDK you will always need previous version as a boot JDK. Basically to build OpenJDK 12 you will need OpenJDK 11 and so on. For SPARC it's rather easy as you can download Java SE...
Guest Author: Petr Sumbera As you may know, a new OpenJDK 12 was released which you might want to try on Oracle Solaris. There are already some great blog posts out by Martin Mueller and...
 On another forum, the other day, Alan Coopersmith shared a nice list of recent blogs on Oracle Solaris and related topics and I thought that this would be...
 On another forum, the other day, Alan Coopersmith shared a nice list of recent blogs on Oracle Solaris and related topics and I thought that this would be good to share on this blog roll too. It has blogs from this blog roll as well as many others and it gives a nice insight into the recent activity in this area as well as the new features delivered via the "Continuous Innovation" process in the 11.4 SRU's. Here's the list: Update on Oracle Java on Oracle Solaris — ...
 On another forum, the other day, Alan Coopersmith shared a nice list of recent blogs on Oracle Solaris and related topics and I thought that this would be good to share on this blog roll too. It has...
As part of the Oracle Solaris 11.4 release we introduced the new StatsStore and Dashboard functionality allowing you to collect and analyze stats from all over...
As part of the Oracle Solaris 11.4 release we introduced the new StatsStore and Dashboard functionality allowing you to collect and analyze stats from all over the system that Oracle Solaris is running on. Some of these stats come from the Oracle Solaris kernel and some from userland applications. One of the interesting things about the design of the StatsStore and Dashboard however is that it also allows you to collect data from other sources like applications running on...
As part of the Oracle Solaris 11.4 release we introduced the new StatsStore and Dashboard functionality allowing you to collect and analyze stats from all over the system that Oracle Solaris...
Building OpenJDK Java Releases on Oracle Solaris/SPARC Starting with Java SE 8, Oracle created the concept of Long-Term-Support (LTS) releases, which are...
Building OpenJDK Java Releases on Oracle Solaris/SPARC Starting with Java SE 8, Oracle created the concept of Long-Term-Support (LTS) releases, which are expected to be used and supported for an extended amount of time and for production purposes. Oracle Java SE 8 and Java SE 11 are LTS releases and are available and supported for Oracle Solaris - subject to licensing and support requirements detailed...
Building OpenJDK Java Releases on Oracle Solaris/SPARC Starting with Java SE 8, Oracle created the concept of Long-Term-Support (LTS) releases, which are expected to be used and supported for...
With the release of the October 2018 Solaris 10 Extended Support Recommended patch set, you can now run Solaris 10 in Oracle Cloud. I thought it would be good...
With the release of the October 2018 Solaris 10 Extended Support Recommended patch set, you can now run Solaris 10 in Oracle Cloud. I thought it would be good to document the main steps for getting an image you can run in OCI High level steps are Create a Solaris 10 image using Virtualbox and get it patched with the October 2018 patch set Unconfigure it and shut it down Upload it to the Oracle Cloud object storage Create a custom image from that object you've just uploaded...
With the release of the October 2018 Solaris 10 Extended Support Recommended patch set, you can now run Solaris 10 in Oracle Cloud. I thought it would be good to document the main steps for getting an...
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...
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...
