I just applied the latest raft of Solaris 10 Gnome patches and am quite happy to see that the Pidgin IM client (version 2.0.2) can now see my buddies on Yahoo...
http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/tdf_release.html Also, when I go to their download page, there aren't any Solaris versions? Looks like the way Oracle...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/23/oracle_stack_in_a_box/ I was at OpenWorld this past week, and I think this article summarizes the Big Message of the...
I wanted to pass along that the latest Solaris 10 Macromedia Flash Player Plugin patch 125333-11 for x86 is broken under Solaris 10U8. It may work for a little...
My new Oracle rep is getting a ballpark quote for me on my contract reup for early 2011. Also, which may be of interest to some of you, she is going to find...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/technology/07oracle.html I can't see how Mark Hurd can do worse than Oracle has done so far with their shiny new Sun...
Has anyone ever actually witnessed Turbo working on a Nehalem/Westmere setup under Solaris x86? (Specifically by using "kstat -m cpu_info -s current_clock_Hz"...
Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning What's New in the Solaris 10 10/09 Release And I though Solaris numbering...
How should the Adaptec AAC-RAID controller that comes stock with Oracle's x4XXX systems be configured when each drive is set as its own volume? I just want to...
Hi Last night I swapped out a DVD drive, and now the machine is taking an eternity to shutdown (was a few minutes, not it takes about 50). The first grub...
This is an interesting article... http://ideasint.blogs.com/ideasinsights/2010/08/oracle-reintroduces-solaris-support-for-non-oracle-x86-hardware.html It's...
I'm trying to figure out what to do about the gnu packages. We have a substantial sparc based set of gnu packages that were built by someone here (presumably,...
Hi, Not sure if Im alone on this one ... I just got my Quadro 4000 card. I tried quickly under one machine, running a bit old solaris release: Solaris Express...
Morning guys, If you are running nvidia cards on Solaris or any other distro of Solaris and you would like to have support for CUDA can you reply or send your...
Just curious, anybody running an S10u8 system. Did they get an imapd into the release? I never understood why Sun never delivered an imap server in the...
Can anyone NOT an Oracle employee give me the good, bad and ugly view about these servers? I have just come out of a presentation where if we go ahead with the...
NexentaCore-3.0 Is this more Debian or Opensolaris like? I saw NC3 is at snv_134f so I wonder if this is a better choice than (stopped) OpenSolaris b134. I run...
Brian, We don't have a 4170 but do have a 4150 and a 4270. Both purchased before Oracle with the Sun EDU discount (made them reasonable price wise). I expect...
I have found a problem in my system and I would like your help and/or assistance. Of course I understand that I am asking too much (!), but I just hope someone...
I've been looking around for reasonable (for home use) on-line backup providers that support a home based S10X86 server. CrashPlan looks interesting. Does...
Does anyone know if ZFS is included in the lastest release of Solaris10 x86, 04/05? I have the initial release from october, but it wasn't avaible. Thanks....
What name has Judith Sim and company's marketing wonks coined for RDBMS, OS, hardware, complete? See Greg Levine on a 5-year ago iteration of Database Packs: ...
A new (to me) open-source virtualization product has just appeared: <http://www.virtualbox.org/>. Has anyone tried building it on Solaris yet? Cheers, Chris...
After 5 months, I've finally been able to renew my S10 support agreement with Oracle. pca says that I'm only 178 patches behind. Anyone know if I should avoid...
Acroreader 3.4 now posted on Adobes website ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.3.4/enu/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
