Yet another way to try OpenSolaris - this time on demand. Sun Learning Services has a program (in beta) where you can launch an instance of OpenSolaris from...
Yet another way to try OpenSolaris - this time on demand. Sun Learning Services has a program (in beta) where you can launch an instance of OpenSolaris from your browser. Most of you reading this blog probably already use OpenSolaris, so here's a tip you can pass onto your friends who've been envious of you :-). Currently there are 8 instances available. And the version is still 2008.11. But to try it out, simply navigate to https://learning.sun.com/solc/course/sandbox-1....
Yet another way to try OpenSolaris - this time on demand. Sun Learning Services has a program (in beta) where you can launch an instance of OpenSolaris from your browser. Most of you reading this blog...
As a user of OpenSolaris you may be wondering why it's missing all the popular fonts such as Arial, Times New Roman and the ever popular Wingdings. The license...
As a user of OpenSolaris you may be wondering why it's missing all the popular fonts such as Arial, Times New Roman and the ever popular Wingdings. The license for these fonts prohibit their distribution with the operating system, however, they are freely available to you in the extra repository. If you haven't yet set up the extra repository, take a moment and do so because it has other goodies like Flash, VirtualBox and the JavaFX SDK. Once you have the extra repository...
As a user of OpenSolaris you may be wondering why it's missing all the popular fonts such as Arial, Times New Roman and the ever popular Wingdings. The license for these fonts prohibit...
If you're using OpenSolaris you should certainly have Time Slider enabled, at least on your home directory. OpenSolaris 2009.06 brings some enhancements to Time...
If you're using OpenSolaris you should certainly have Time Slider enabled, at least on your home directory. OpenSolaris 2009.06 brings some enhancements to Time Slider, one of them being the ability to explore a file's versions: From the File Version Explorer you can then compare older versions with the current. You'll see the following hint, which I'll get to in a minute: It's a standard text diff like you would see from the command line. Now, back to that hint, let's...
If you're using OpenSolaris you should certainly have Time Slider enabled, at least on your home directory. OpenSolaris 2009.06 brings some enhancements to Time Slider, one of them being the ability...
Today I came across 3 short screencasts by Christoph Schuba on various security related features in OpenSolaris: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Cryptographic...
Today I came across 3 short screencasts by Christoph Schuba on various security related features in OpenSolaris: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Cryptographic Framework Process Rights Management Christoph's a senior engineer on the Solaris security team and a frequent presenter on the topic of OpenSolaris security at conferences. Each screencast is under 5 minutes. Enjoy.
Today I came across 3 short screencasts by Christoph Schuba on various security related features in OpenSolaris: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Cryptographic Framework Process Rights...
Sun Blade X6275is one example platformwith2 Intel Nehalem(Xeon 5500)processorswith 4 cores, 8 threads eachAmitabha Banerjee of the Performance Group wrote 4...
Sun Blade X6275is one example platformwith2 Intel Nehalem(Xeon 5500)processorswith 4 cores, 8 threads eachAmitabha Banerjee of the Performance Group wrote 4 blog articles about improving OpenSolaris performance on Intel's "Nehalem" processor.Nehalem is the codename for Intel Xenon 5500 series processors.In this article I want to highlight how we improved performance and refer to his blogs.What's different about Intel Nehalem?Currently-released Intel Nehalem processors ("Intel...
Sun Blade X6275is one example platformwith2 Intel Nehalem(Xeon 5500)processorswith 4 cores, 8 threads eachAmitabha Banerjee of the Performance Group wrote 4 blog articles about improving...
This Thursday, May 28th at 6:30 - 8:30 PM MDT, you can virtually attend the Front Range OpenSolaris User Group meeting as it's being broadcast over Ustream. The...
This Thursday, May 28th at 6:30 - 8:30 PM MDT, you can virtually attend the Front Range OpenSolaris User Group meeting as it's being broadcast over Ustream. The topics are: OpenSolaris Auto Install by Clay Baenziger (60 mins) How to synchronize an iPod by Pat Korsnick (20 mins) Be sure to prepare your own pizza.
This Thursday, May 28th at 6:30 - 8:30 PM MDT, you can virtually attend the Front Range OpenSolaris User Group meeting as it's being broadcast over Ustream. The topics are: OpenSolaris Auto Install...
If your favorite piece of open source software isn't available for OpenSolaris, there's a fairly new tool called SourceJuicer to help you get it there. In my...
If your favorite piece of open source software isn't available for OpenSolaris, there's a fairly new tool called SourceJuicer to help you get it there. In my very limited experience with the tool, the key to a successful build is the spec file. In Josh Simons' latest blog entry, SourceJuicer: How to contribute a package to OpenSolaris, he gives a very in depth description of each line of the file. He then walks you though his experience of submitting ploticus, a tool for...
If your favorite piece of open source software isn't available for OpenSolaris, there's a fairly new tool called SourceJuicer to help you get it there. In my very limited experience with the tool,...
One thing's that not immediately apparent when using OpenSolaris crypto functions is where are the crypto libraries?The OpenSolaris Cryptographic Framework API...
One thing's that not immediately apparent when using OpenSolaris crypto functions is where are the crypto libraries?The OpenSolaris Cryptographic Framework API is based on thePKCS#11 industry standard from RSA Laboratories.However, the PKCS#11 crypto libraries aren't shown by ldd(1M), which lists dynamic libraries used in executables. For example, lets look at encrypt(1M):$ ldd /usr/bin/encryptlibc.so.1 => /lib/libc.so.1libm.so.2 => /lib/libm.so.2Ldd only lists the C and math...
One thing's that not immediately apparent when using OpenSolaris crypto functions is where are the crypto libraries?The OpenSolaris Cryptographic Framework API is based on thePKCS#11 industry standard...
If you are a developer in China you can now get access to a complete OpenSolaris desktop. Anyone who is interested can register an account at Unix-Center.Net....
If you are a developer in China you can now get access to a complete OpenSolaris desktop. Anyone who is interested can register an account at Unix-Center.Net. After your account is activated, you can login to the server either via SSH or VNC. Every user gets their own home directory and 100 MB of storage space.
If you are a developer in China you can now get access to a complete OpenSolaris desktop. Anyone who is interested can register an account at Unix-Center.Net. After your account is activated, you can...
