I'm amused by the recent articles: http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/05/30/1245241/sfc-expands-gpl-compliance-efforts-to-samba-linux-and-other-projects and ...
Catching up on Google News queries. ElReg hack (and Sam Palmisano and company flack?) Timothy Prickett Morgan on Dorian Daley and company's HPQ document...
I know we are an X86 group, but one of you guys might know the answer so I thought I would toss it out. Apologies in advance. I have a client with a SPARC...
I just read (well skimmed, it's quite long) this article "How to Live Install from Oracle Solaris 10 to Oracle Solaris 11 11/11" from a recent Oracle...
So a month or so ago I posted about several issues I was having with S11. One of those issues was a zpool process that would start consuming more and more CPU...
I mount an NFS directory on workstations at boot. I have NSF client enabled and have a vfstab entry with mount at boot enabled (same entry I had under Solaris...
Hello Fellow Solaris survivors, Has any tried a Dell R720? I have been attempting to set one up, but it it appears to be the least Solaris friendly server I...
I'm having problems building various things on Solaris 11 due to missing gzopen64. This is supposed to be in libz apparently, but it looks like Solaris 11's...
Has anyone here ever managed to get anything other than abysmal performance with USB sticks on Solaris? I was testing a cheep 16GB stick on my Mac laptop I it...
New SFWfirefox is up: <URL:http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/12.0/contrib/solaris_pkgadd/> Tested with Adobe Flash 11.2 against...
So my Solaris 11 box was pretty stable for several months...Then I did 3 updates: SRU 4 Vbox 4.1.10 SGD 4.63 Now, every morning, just after 2AM, the Solaris...
Hi I just tried to do a liveupgrade of S10U9 to S10U10. I also have a S10U8 BE, and the BE is on a pair of mirrored ZFS disks, The lucreate and the luupgrade...
I now have my Oracle support contract set-up and can download and install patches on a brand new install of Solaris 10 using PCA. I'd like to register the...
I'm just a lowly Solaris end-user who purchased a service contract from Sun to be able to get patches. I've renewed my contract with Oracle but they refuse to...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57415324-94/oracle-ceo-larry-ellison-i-dont-know-if-java-is-free/?tag=mncol;topStories Awe come on. It's not about the bluff...
After umpteen years of having our DBA's insisting on SPARC, a change of personnel means that use of x86 for the eponymous RDBMS is now on the table. We have a...
I was following the instructions at http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+x_win/NvidiaInstallation to install the latest nvidia driver on a...
Some of our users are having problems accessing files they have right to when using the explorer thingy on windows 7. This only appears to happen with windows...
OK, so maybe this is a bit of a rant.... Now that Oracle seems to have pretty much killed Solaris, it seems like no one cares about making sure their software...
Tried this on my dell 6240 laptop in virtual box. It failed to boot with "long mode is not supported" in 32-bit mode. It panic'd the entire windows box in...
