OpenSolaris
Zone's a wonderful and handy tools for developers and admins alike, but creating them can be a time consuming activity especially when you need to create more than one. Scripting can help but your not shortening the time, just automating the process. But around Nevada B43 ZFS and Zones were integrated, building on each others strengths. Now we can clone zones, which reduces the amount of wasted disk space when creating multiple zones that ...
Have you asked or heard someone ask about Trused Solaris and the Trusted Extensions in Solaris 10? Then you'll want to be at SVOSUG on Thursday: Glenn Faden presents OpenSolaris & Trusted Extentions. Read more about it in Alan DuBoff's blog. If you can't be present, not to worry, Alan's got a call-in line for you.
A change is due and my time has finally come. After several years at Homestead, I'm setting sails onward. Following Labor Day I'll be working for Joyent. The gig has a lot to offer, including the fact that I'll be working full time on putting OpenSolaris to work in production. That means that projects that are currently a sideline activity for me will become of full time importance and I'll be able to spend more time contributing in ...
And so yet another LinuxWorld has come and gone. This year, for the first time, OpenSolaris was an official .Org booth and I had the honor of running the booth for the community. All in all it was a very good show. Attendance was lower this year than in any year gone past, at least based on what I saw. The talk of the show was about what wasn't there: Red Hat. Journalists were asking everyone they could find about what Red Hat's abscence ...
Hello Mr Dan Frye, My name is Ben Rockwood, I'm a member of the OpenSolaris community. Perhaps you've never heard of me because you've never actually looked at the OpenSolaris project, but thats understandable. Except, actually, it isn't. You've been saying some things lately that are, as my wife noted this evening: "blatantly ignorant". Indeed. You're making the same mistake that Mr. Martin Fink of HP made, shooting your big fat ...
LinuxWorld SF 2006 is under way. I don't have time for a full report but thought I'd check in. The show is going pretty well so far. Two days down, one to go. In the booth I've got my home dev workstation on hand, and in an amazing stroke of luck my main man, ZFS co-inventor, Bill Moore, supplied me with a Thumper (X4500)! Additionally Alan DuBoff has been there in the afternoons showing off OpenSolaris on both his MacBook Pro (via ...
LinuxWorld is happening this week! The expo won't open untill tomorow. OpenSolaris will be there! We're in the .Org pavilion, so come and see us! Come with your questions, your expectations, and the problems you need to solve and we'll show you want we have to offer, not just the software, but the thriving community around it all. While your there don't forget to visit our friends in the PostgreSQL .Org booth, X.org .Org booth, Greenplumb ...
ZFS is an amazing and wonderful technology. I say technology because its more than just any one of its capabilities. Being able to dish out, from a single pool, both filesystems and traditional volumes (which I'll call zvol's) makes for an extremely power storage foundation on which to build monumental structures without the traditional complexity that comes from such beloved products as my old friend Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM). In a ...
LinuxWorld is fast approaching. The show runs Mon-Thursday of next week, the expo floor is open Tues-Thursday. Want to go but can't flip the cash? Get your free expo pass now and be there! OpenSolaris will be at the show, yet again. But wait!!! Shhh, don't tell anyone, but Solaris is taking over LinuxWorld. Yup. No one there focuses on Linux anyway, so lets just pull out that carpet all the way. Check out the Solaris action at ...
In an exciting bit of news from Apple's WWDC: Xcode 3.0 offers an extraordinary new program, Xray.....Many such Xray instruments leverage the open source DTrace, now built into Mac OS X Leopard. Xray. Because it