OGB Hangs Itself: It is done
This morning at 8:19AM Pacific, the OGB passed: Whereas Oracle has continued ignore requests to appoint a liaison to work with the OGB concerning the future of OpenSolaris development and our community, and Whereas Oracle distributed an email to its employees on Aug 13 2010 that set forth Oracle's decision to unilaterally terminate the development partnership between Oracle and the OpenSolaris Community, and Whereas, without the ...
OpenSolaris R.I.P.: The Day is Finally Here.
This is a real thing. This is not hype or idle rambling. OpenSolaris is, as of Friday the 13th of August, 2010, dead. Read the full skinny in the leaked internal email to Solaris Engineering. Here is the short version: OpenSolaris is dead. No more real-time/nightly code pushes. OpenSolaris 2010.05 will not happen, nor will any in the future. Solaris 11 Express will be the new "developer" release which will be available through OTN. ...
Oracle Finally Unveils the SPARC & Solaris Roadmap
John Fowler delvers an Oracle Systems Strategy Update webcast. Better late than never. There weren't any surprises. The key take-aways I think are: Roadmap for SPARC and Solaris out to 2015. SPARC will deliver "2x plus performance improvement every 2 years" Ultimate devotion to SPARC platform. 2 SPARC server lines: T-Series for lots of threads, M-Series for lots of sockets. "Niagara"/"UltraSPARC" branding isn't present at ...
Illumos Shines New Light
As many of you have no doubt heard, this week Illumos opened its doors to the world. What is Illumos? A change to put "OpenSolaris" back on track. When this slay ride started, "OpenSolaris" wasn't a distribution, it was a community. It was users and developers and sysadmins gathering around a great operating systems code, now free to learn from, contribute to, and to innovate on. But that's not how it really went down... is it? ...
Happy SysAdmins Day
Its that time of the year again. Happy SysAdmin Day everyone. If today is dragging, might want to refresh your memory of the great OddTodd... always a pick-me-up.
Diversion: Ode to Lego Technic
Nova, my first daughter, is now 6 and Glenn, my first son, is now 5. As a GeekDad I ensure to bathe them in geeky goodness. I've been thankful that Glenn is obsessed with Lego. The kool thing about it is that of course, I get to help him, so its just a great time. Here was last nights project: Teaching him has gotten me thinking back to my own youth. I had a box of Lego's but not a lot of sets. The one that I did get was in 1988, ...
Devops in Practice: How They Do It
Damon Edwards (DTO Solutions) & John Willis (Opscode) are the two guys really pumping out the "good news" of devops. They started a new podcast, Devops Cafe several weeks ago. Already on episode 8, having featured guests such as John Allspaw, R.I. Pienaar, Andrew Shafer, and more. Highly recommended. Whats interesting is that John & Damon really aware of an outcry from the community, that is: "How do all these devops shops do it!!" ...
OGB Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head
This morning, at the 8AM (Pacific) OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) meeting, the following was proposed and unanimously resolved: The OGB is keen to promote the uptake and open development of OpenSolaris and to work on behalf of the community with Oracle, as such the OGB needs Oracle to appoint a liaison by August 16, 2010, who has the the authority to talk about the future of OpenSolaris and its interaction with the OpenSolaris community ...
Planet Solaris Dies the Death
A very sad day indeed... Planet Solaris is dead. Just another in a long line of bad signs. Please use Planet.OpenSolaris.org instead. A big thanks to David Edmondson for running planetsolaris.org for so long. I am partly responsible. Sorry to everyone that the blog has been so quiet lately. Given that state of Solaris right now, its unclear what is dead and what is alive. It feels futile to blog about features that may never really ...
Solaris Roadmap Update
If you didn't see it earlier this week in Robert Milkowski's blog, Oracle has provided an updated roadmap. Simply it states the following: Oracle will continue to make OpenSolaris available as open source and Oracle will continue to actively support and participate in the OpenSolaris community Oracle is investing more in Solaris than Sun did prior to the acquisition, and will continue to contribute innovative technologies to ...