It's a great day for OpenSolaris community - the pending and contrib repos are available and it's now pretty easy to contribute packages into a central...
It's a great day for OpenSolaris community - the pending and contrib repos are available and it's now pretty easy to contribute packages into a central repository with low barrier to entry. It was possible to contribute before by creating your IPS repository but a central community repo was something that was really missing because it was hard for people to find all the different useful repos. The contribution process is described on this page. I am expecting that the...
It's a great day for OpenSolaris community - the pending and contrib repos are available and it's now pretty easy to contribute packages into a central repository with low barrier to entry. It was...
I've been wondering for a long time how to mirror an IPS repository. I finally got a link to a page which explains it. So if you want to run an IPS mirror, look...
I've been wondering for a long time how to mirror an IPS repository. I finally got a link to a page which explains it. So if you want to run an IPS mirror, look at these instructions.
Go to www.opensolaris.com for lots of new videos about the 2008.11 release. I especially enjoyed Glynn Foster's overview of the new features. To learn more...
Go to www.opensolaris.com for lots of new videos about the 2008.11 release. I especially enjoyed Glynn Foster's overview of the new features. To learn more about the features, visit the Learn section and don't forget to download the bits :)
Go to www.opensolaris.com for lots of new videos about the 2008.11 release. I especially enjoyed Glynn Foster's overview of the new features. To learn more about the features, visit the Learn...
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...
