I was pleasantly surprised to see a new icon on my top panel today - the update notifier . Clicking on it opened the Update Manager, which you can also access...
I was pleasantly surprised to see a new icon on my top panel today - the update notifier . Clicking on it opened the Update Manager, which you can also access from the System > Administration menu: Selecting Update All notified me that a new Boot Environment was going to be created. This is great as I don't have to worry about these updates somehow harming my system. The update took a couple of minutes to complete: After which I rebooted. There was a new opensolaris-1 grub...
I was pleasantly surprised to see a new icon on my top panel today - the update notifier . Clicking on it opened the Update Manager, which you can also access from the System > Administration...
Role Based Access Control or RBAC is a powerful feature of OpenSolaris. However, all of the moving pieces involved can make it somewhat hard to comprehend. In...
Role Based Access Control or RBAC is a powerful feature of OpenSolaris. However, all of the moving pieces involved can make it somewhat hard to comprehend. In this blog entry I attempt to distill what I've come to understand. First, some definitions: Term Description Related File(s) Command(s) user A user of the system /etc/passwd/etc/user_attr useraddusermod role A named set of authorizations that can be assumed /etc/passwd/etc/user_attr roleaddrolemodroles profile A named...
Role Based Access Control or RBAC is a powerful feature of OpenSolaris. However, all of the moving pieces involved can make it somewhat hard to comprehend. In this blog entry I attempt to distill what...
I have recorded a 12-minute screencast which will walk you through the new features in the 2008.11 release of OpenSolaris. It contains lots of demos, so you can...
I have recorded a 12-minute screencast which will walk you through the new features in the 2008.11 release of OpenSolaris. It contains lots of demos, so you can see various new features in action - I focused on the desktop features because it is a big theme for this release. Click on the image to play the screencast
I have recorded a 12-minute screencast which will walk you through the new features in the 2008.11 release of OpenSolaris. It contains lots of demos, so you can see various new features in action -...
Solaris 10 & OpenSolarisare IPv6 Ready(phase I and II)IPv6 addresses, 128 bits in length,are the new addresses for Internet.It replaces the old 32-bit IPv4...
Solaris 10 & OpenSolarisare IPv6 Ready(phase I and II)IPv6 addresses, 128 bits in length,are the new addresses for Internet.It replaces the old 32-bit IPv4 addresses, 32 bits in length,because the latter are running out.With the explosion of non-computer Internet devices(such as cell/mobile phones, PDAs, music devices, etc.)and growth of Internet in third-world countries,the need for new IPv6 addresses will grow quickly.Most Solaris applications support IPv6 out-of-the box...
Solaris 10 & OpenSolarisare IPv6 Ready(phase I and II)IPv6 addresses, 128 bits in length,are the new addresses for Internet.It replaces the old 32-bit IPv4 addresses, 32 bits in length,because the...
OpenSolaris 2008.11 has a new feature called graphical boot. We call it internally the "Smiley face". Unfortunately this otherwise cool feature has one big...
OpenSolaris 2008.11 has a new feature called graphical boot. We call it internally the "Smiley face". Unfortunately this otherwise cool feature has one big problem - if you disable gdm and boot with the graphical boot you won't see the command line prompt. Which is why there is a second option in GRUB called the "text boot" which will work as the old regular text boot. The nice thing about graphical boot is that it doesn't show you the command line prompt when you boot into...
OpenSolaris 2008.11 has a new feature called graphical boot. We call it internally the "Smiley face". Unfortunately this otherwise cool feature has one big problem - if you disable gdm and boot...
Glynn Foster created a very nice "New and noteworthy" page for OpenSolaris 2008.11: http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/features/whats-new/200811 Btw in case you...
Glynn Foster created a very nice "New and noteworthy" page for OpenSolaris 2008.11: http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/features/whats-new/200811 Btw in case you are wondering how is the release shaping up, it's coming along - RC2 is ready now and final release is coming soon (obviously things are a bit slowed down right now due to the thanksgiving holiday in the US).
Glynn Foster created a very nice "New and noteworthy" page for OpenSolaris 2008.11: http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/features/whats-new/200811 Btw in case you are wondering how is the release shaping...
A while back I wrote an entry on how to access Windows shares. One limitation I ran into was the inability to mount the windows share at boot. A comment to my...
A while back I wrote an entry on how to access Windows shares. One limitation I ran into was the inability to mount the windows share at boot. A comment to my recent post on Startup Programs got me thinking about alternative solutions. I presume I'm unable to mount the windows share at boot via the /etc/vfstab file because the smb client SMF service that is required hasn't started yet. Well then, why not create my own SMF service, that's dependent on the smb client, to handle...
A while back I wrote an entry on how to access Windows shares. One limitation I ran into was the inability to mount the windows share at boot. A comment to my recent post on Startup Programs got...
I wrote an FAQ which answers many of the common questions people have when installing OpenSolaris. It also tells you how to avoid some common pitfalls (e.g....
I wrote an FAQ which answers many of the common questions people have when installing OpenSolaris. It also tells you how to avoid some common pitfalls (e.g. avoiding usage of extended partitions, how to recover from overwritten boot manager, etc.). If you have any additional questions or you spot any incorrections please let me know at roman dot strobl at sun dot com. http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolaris/OpenSolaris0811InstallationFAQ
I wrote an FAQ which answers many of the common questions people have when installing OpenSolaris. It also tells you how to avoid some common pitfalls (e.g. avoiding usage of extended partitions, how...
If you have IPv6 enabled, www.kame.netshows a kame anime (animated tortoise).If you just have IPv4, the kame won't move.IPv4 Internet addresses, 32 bits in...
If you have IPv6 enabled, www.kame.netshows a kame anime (animated tortoise).If you just have IPv4, the kame won't move.IPv4 Internet addresses, 32 bits in length, are running out.The replacement is IPv6 addresses, which are 128 bits.Ten years ago, IPv6 was in an experimental stage for several operating systems.On Linux, experimental patches, modules, and binaries were available, which I cobbled together to enable IPv6 on my home network.To testmy old IPv6 setup,I decided to...
If you have IPv6 enabled, www.kame.netshows a kame anime (animated tortoise).If you just have IPv4, the kame won't move.IPv4 Internet addresses, 32 bits in length, are running out.The replacement...
