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OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2: Information and News
So yanked all AMIs from last year? Bah.
EC2  Oracle  OpenSolaris  from twitter_favs
february 2012 by sogrady
sirius_relnotes.pdf (application/pdf Object)
OpenSolaris on System Z; details of the port from Sine Nomine
opensolaris  systemz  port  mainframe  sinenomine  via:trs80 
october 2008 by sogrady
Mike Shapiro and Steve O'Grady Talk FISHworks : Storage Stop
Mike and I talking FISHworks...on the street
zfs  storage  solaris  opensolaris  dtrace  fishworks 
september 2008 by sogrady
Safe as Milk » Blog Archive » Sun: Trying to do the right thing
half a dozen folks have sent this in, in which dneary - a #redmonk regular - looks at Sun's behavior with respect to open source
sun  opensource  gnome  opensolaris  linux  solaris  foss 
april 2008 by sogrady
The Blog of Ben Rockwood
don't agree with all of this - particularly the affection for parliamentary procedure, but Ben listens and strives for constructive dialogue, so he'd have my vote if i had one
benrockwood  ogb  opensolaris  election 
march 2008 by sogrady
The Blog of Ben Rockwood
i've said my piece about this issue in the past - the gist is that i think this was a necessary move - but either way i think Ben is speaking for many here
opensolaris  opensource  sun  projectindiana  benrockwood 
february 2008 by sogrady
Joyent Outage Tied to Software Updates - Data Center Knowledge
more on the Joyent outage and the ZFS bug behind it
solaris  opensolaris  zfs  joyent  outage  bug  via:gordon 
january 2008 by sogrady
Comparing “open source” projects? Start by asking why does the project exist.
very interesting piece by mdolan; a bit cynical towards Sun, as usual, and i do think comparisons are possible b/twn projects managed under different governance models, but there's a lot in here that i agree with. be interesting if he went introspective.
mdolan  linux  opends  opensolaris  opensource  sun  ibm 
december 2007 by sogrady
OpenSolaris Soon to Run on IBM Mainframes
count me as interested in this
mainframe  opensolaris  solaris  sun  ibm 
november 2007 by sogrady
The Blog of Ben Rockwood
"I am personally offended by the various accusations...I humbly ask the community to consider that there are many persons at Sun who have various agenda's which are in several cases being unfairly placed on him."
sun  ianmurdock  benrockwood  community  opensolaris 
november 2007 by sogrady
Chime Visualization Tool for DTrace at OpenSolaris.org
failed to get this running on Indiana, but interested
chime  dtrace  gui  monitoring  opensolaris  opensource  project  observability  debugging 
november 2007 by sogrady
The Blog of Ben Rockwood
"We're seeing calls to revoke the commit rights of individuals who implement something that a community members doesn't like...This is chaos of the worst kind and a sign that people don't trust the system." - at last, a sane take. democracy run amok.
benrockwood  sun  solaris  opensolaris  community  democracy 
november 2007 by sogrady
ongoing · My Indiana
"They considered adopting apt and decided they could build something better; it’s called IPS." - i have concerns about this, notably on the resource and package formatting fronts, but will withold judgement. also, no sympathy for the bash haters.
timbray  sun  solaris  indiana  opensolaris  opensource 
november 2007 by sogrady
Get the Preview! at OpenSolaris.org
will be giving this a whirl soon as i get the chance: which probably won't be for a week or so, unfortunately. they waited one day too long...
indiana  opensolaris  iso  livecd  solaris 
november 2007 by sogrady
OpenSolaris Forums: Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name ...
obviously, i'm in favor of this. going to ruffle some feathers, but +1.
opensolaris  branding  naming  ianmurdock 
november 2007 by sogrady
Twitter / Glynn Foster: bash the default shell in t...
outstanding news
bash  shell  opensolaris  glynnfoster 
october 2007 by sogrady
Life is so good, it gets better every day » Blog Archive » Indiana Update
everything you needed to know about the state of Indiana (note the small s)
projectindiana  solaris  opensolaris  opensource  glynnfoster  sun 
september 2007 by sogrady
Rob Sayre’s Mozilla Blog » Blog Archive » Land of DTrace
"I deleted the Ubuntu partition that I had. Now I’m using Solaris. It’s much nicer to use, except for the fonts. I don’t think I can work on Mozilla without DTrace ever again. Too useful." - the DTrace demo w/ Spidermonkey is really impressive
dtrace  opensolaris  opensource  solaris  mozilla  robertsayre  osx 
september 2007 by sogrady
Followup on The Great Shell Debate : Marc Hamilton's Weblog
Marc is right, this is good to see. any shell, after all, is better than the current default. and i mean _any_ shell.
marchamilton  default  shell  solaris  opensolaris 
august 2007 by sogrady
Predictable
in principle, this all sounds wonderful. the complexity scares me, however - as i said in #redmonk, "perfect is the enemy of good"
package  management  opensolaris  packaging 
august 2007 by sogrady
Simon Phipps, SunMink: A Niche The Size Of A Canyon
"Stephen seems to suggest that in some way centralised SCM like Subversion is a natural choice for open source, but I would suggest that needs more thought." - not sure where Simon got that, but i do agree with his DSCM's for ecosystems arg
dscm  opensolaris  opensource  scm  subversion  mercurial  Git  Bazaar 
july 2007 by sogrady
Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog: An OpenSolaris/Linux Mashup
Jonathan's response to Linus
jonathanschwartz  sun  linustorvalds  opensolaris  linux 
june 2007 by sogrady
Ian Murdock’s Weblog » “Where do I download OpenSolaris”?
"In other words, with all the buzz about making Solaris more familiar to Linux users, it turns out the widest part of the familiarity gap isn’t even technological." - precisely
opensolaris  ianmurdock  barrierstoentry  familiarity 
june 2007 by sogrady
mjg59: This thread on the Sun initiative to pro
fascinating, not just for the comments on Sun's Project Indiana initiative, but also for the comments discussing the relative merits of the approaches taken by Red Hat, Ubuntu and so on
opensolaris  ubuntu  opensource  redhat  community  procedure 
june 2007 by sogrady
Silicon Island: My thoughts on project Indiana
"It is kind of sad the huge amount of poisonous feedback and noise around the discussion, the people that thinks that the project is not so important, should just let the people who believes in it just work instead of trying to stop them."
Project  indiana  solaris  opensolaris  community  feedback 
june 2007 by sogrady
OpenSolaris Forums: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana) ...
get your high level Project Indiana deets here
projectindiana  solaris  opensolaris  glynnfoster  sun  opensource  distribution 
may 2007 by sogrady
Joyeur: Joyeur: DTrace for Ruby is available
just what it says
debugging  deployment  development  dtrace  monitoring  opensolaris  performance  programming  ruby  rails 
may 2007 by sogrady
Christopher Mahan's blog: Assorted Thoughts
"In a meeting last week I said Solaris 10 was open source and free in production, and my manager stared at me, then ignored me, as if I had just announced the Pope was my uncle. It didn't even register with him, at all." - perceptions always lag reality
solaris  christophermahan  opensource  opensolaris 
april 2007 by sogrady
» Ian Murdock: Making Solaris more like Linux | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
if Ian or any of the Sun AR folks read this, would love to catch up - love to know what the plans are going forward
ianmurdock  sun  solaris  opensolaris  linux  opensource 
march 2007 by sogrady
poll.opensolaris.org: Community Election Management
congrats to the winners - particularly Glynn & Keith whom i've met
ogb  opensolaris  governance  opensource 
march 2007 by sogrady
Glynn Foster's Blog
Glynn's right: OpenSolaris community members need to act quickly and save kittens by voting (on a personal note, i'd strongly recommend that you consider voting for Glynn)
glynnfoster  opensolaris  voting  community  ogb 
march 2007 by sogrady
mrdeviant: x.org dtrace probes
interesting indeed; i wonder what dtrace can uncover in x.org
x.org  dtrace  solaris  opensolaris 
march 2007 by sogrady
New OpenSolaris distribution for developers | The Register
a look at some of the new Solaris distribution options (there are too many, IMO); the goals of Express Developer Edition in particular are good, but the install fails on my Ultra 20
solaris  opensolaris  solarisexpress  developer  edition  ultra20  via:Simon 
march 2007 by sogrady
Sun's top Solaris sellers bail out | Reg Developer
had heard about Chris, hadn't heard about Tom; tough losses for the Solaris crew
tomgoguen  chrisratcliffe  solaris  opensolaris  sun 
february 2007 by sogrady
Glynn Foster's Blog
as i told Glynn privately, were i to have a vote in the OGB elections he would have mine; OpenSolaris has plenty of folks that can build their own kernel - what they need, IMO - is more creative and aggressive thinking; i.e., Glynn
glynnfoster  opensolaris  community  elections  ogb 
february 2007 by sogrady
OpenSolaris Forums: CAB/OGB Position Paper # 20070207 ...
"That there is little, if any, benefit to dual-licensing OpenSolaris with CDDL and the yet to be approved/upcoming GPLv3 license - aside from possible short term good press for the project." - 'if any'? and i'm supposed to take this seriously?
gplv3  opensource  solaris  opensolaris  duallicense  cddl  governance 
february 2007 by sogrady
BootBlog: UNIX/Linux commentary and help -- especially OpenSolaris
dissenting view on the OpenSolaris dual license possibilities - respectfully disagree
duallicense  opensolaris  opensource  gplv3 
february 2007 by sogrady
Ian Murdock’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Why Solaris should adopt GPLv2
i'm actually for this as well, but i'd bet it will not happen
gplv2  murdock  drivers  solaris  opensolaris 
february 2007 by sogrady
OpenSolaris Forums: GPLv3? ...
thread 1 on OpenSolaris & GPLv3
gplv3  opensolaris  cddl  licensing  opensource  community 
february 2007 by sogrady
OpenSolaris Forums: [Fwd: Re: GPLv3?] ...
thread 2 on OpenSolaris & the GPL; some legitimate questions being asked, but a whole lot of unnecessary anti-GPL rhetoric, IMO
gplv3  opensolaris  cddl  licensing  opensource  community 
february 2007 by sogrady
Web Host Industry Review | theWHIR Blogs : Could Sun's New Partnership with Intel Lead to Solaris Servers in Your Data Center?
"Might it be possible that you'd be called upon to support Solaris servers in your data center in the not to far future?" - a very good question indeed
intel  xeon  sun  solaris  opensolaris  hosting 
january 2007 by sogrady
The Blog of Ben Rockwood
Ben says now's the time to get involved in OpenSolaris governance
governance  opensolaris  cab  constitution 
january 2007 by sogrady
» What will happen in IT in 2007? | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com
lots of folks have pointed me at this, so for the record i can't buy the OpenSolaris predictions; i'm certainly bullish on the platform, but i think Murphy's predictions are wildly optimistic
opensolaris  solaris  predictions  2007  linux 
january 2007 by sogrady
The Blog of Ben Rockwood
"Issue was that we were creating thousands of files per minute and file creations were unable to keep up with the demand. Once we realized the problem, thanks to some deep digging with DTrace, the culprit was clear." - DTrace in the wild
dtrace  solaris  kernel  joyent  debugging  opensolaris  support  service 
december 2006 by sogrady
BeleniX
'Include BeleniX as a Gentoo Alternate platform and start Installer and Portage customizations. This will allow leveraging off the huge Gentoo repository." - interesting goal for Belenix, being the Nexenta of Gentoo
opensolaris  belenix  gentoo  linux  distros  nexenta  ubuntu 
october 2006 by sogrady
SCM Project History at OpenSolaris.org
Donnie rooted out the history of the (D)SCM selection for Solaris that Simon and I discussed at lunch yesterday; this is exactly the info i was looking for
via:Donnie  opensolaris  dscm  git  mercurial  bzr  teamware  monotone 
october 2006 by sogrady
SunOS support in system-tools-backends
interesting support for OpenSolaris & Nexenta
gnome  system-tools  opensolaris  nexenta 
october 2006 by sogrady
LinuxWorld | Google testing Sun's OpenSolaris, sources say
interesting - if anyone has further info on this, i'd love to hear it - on or off the record
opensolaris  google  solaris  linux  amd  sun 
september 2006 by sogrady
Brendan Gregg : Weblog
this is fascinating; using DTrace to probe JavaScript - hope to see more of this
dtrace  opensolaris  c  firefox  opensource  javascript  sun  programming  work  performance  via:afongen 
september 2006 by sogrady
eighty-eight miles per hour » QoTD: Val Henson
interesting thoughts on DTrace from a kernel engineer w/ Linux and Solaris experience
henson  waugh  linux  solaris  opensolaris  dtrace 
september 2006 by sogrady
Joyeur: Oh Thumpers, Oh Thumpers
Joyeur guys are Thumper fans, it would seem
thumper  storage  opensolaris  zfs  opensource  sun  joyent 
august 2006 by sogrady
Glynn Foster's Blog
Glynn's very reasonable and dispassionate take on IBM's swipes at OpenSolaris; very much worth a read
foster  sun  opensolaris  ibm  linux  opensource 
august 2006 by sogrady
Jim Walker
wow, it's been a year since i went to the first FROSUG? time flies; anyway, hopefully i'll be able to go more regularly once i return to Denver
frosug  solaris  opensolaris  sun 
august 2006 by sogrady
The Observation Deck
thought i'd already del.icio.us'd this, but apparently not; in any event, congrats to team DTrace - interesting win
apple  development  features  mac  news  osx  dtrace  opensolaris  cantrill 
august 2006 by sogrady
Sun Should Use apt (by Jeremy Zawodny)
given that i've proposed just this in the past, i obviously agree; i still prefer Portage to apt, but in my conversations with Sun i've requested just this
apt  debian  sun  solaris  opensolaris 
august 2006 by sogrady
Unix Admin Corner: Nexenta makes #15 most popular distro
interesting development; definitely watching Nexenta
nexenta  debian  solaris  opensolaris  opensource  linux  distrowatch 
july 2006 by sogrady
Glynn Foster's Blog
i'll be there, and will try and make time for the OpenSolaris BOF
foster  sun  opensolaris  oscon 
june 2006 by sogrady
ZFS vs. Linux Raid + LVM
useful matrix of various ZFS, RAID, LVM options
matrix  opensolaris  zfs  lvm  raid  solaris  linux 
june 2006 by sogrady
'DTrace for FreeBSD - Status Update' - MARC
interesting progress report on porting DTrace to FreeBSD; that's possible, incidentally, because of the CDDL / BSD license compatability (via Simon)
freebsd  cddl  dtrace  solaris  opensolaris  sun 
may 2006 by sogrady
InformationWeek | Sun To Make Java Open Source | 7 Answers To Key Questions About Java's Move To Open Source | May 22, 2006
the Q&A format continues to take the world by storm ;)
Q&A  java  cddl  opensolaris  sun  opensource 
may 2006 by sogrady
jdk-distros: View announcement
more takeup for Java post-DLJ (via Simon)
phipps  dlj  java  belenix  solaris  opensolaris 
may 2006 by sogrady
Native OpenOffice.org in Nexenta OS released!
build challenges for OO.o on Nexenta
nexenta  oo.o  solaris  opensolaris 
may 2006 by sogrady
The Observation Deck
Cantrill and co. doing exactly what they should be: actively engaging with passionate communities around promising technologies - kudos
ruby  rubyonrails  rails  solaris  opensolaris  dtrace  cantrill 
may 2006 by sogrady
Random Encounters&Thoughts: xjobs & DTrace
great, if basic, DTrace reference (10x improvement - not too shabby); thanks for passing it along, Bryan
solaris  opensolaris  xjobs  dtrace  reference 
april 2006 by sogrady
Chime Visualization Tool for DTrace at OpenSolaris.org
interesting little visulization tool for DTrace; just recommended further enhancements as a SOC endeavour on list
soc  google  dtrace  visualization  chime  opensolaris 
april 2006 by sogrady
OpenSolaris Forums: Project proposal: Nevada Companion ...
"The alternative is to nuke /opt from the system and just install everything under /usr..." - still don't get /opt myself - seems like a problem waiting to happen; either way, the Solaris community needs to resolve this
solaris  opensolaris  package  management  debian  pkg-get 
april 2006 by sogrady
Unix Admin Corner: Process done wrong
some dissent on the future of package/application management w/in Solaris/OpenSolaris
solaris  opensolaris  package  management  application 
april 2006 by sogrady
Stephen O'grady: Has Solaris Turned the Corner?
interesting - i got dugg again, on a Solaris piece (granted, the digg user was 'openSolarislinks ;)
solaris  opensolaris  digg 
march 2006 by sogrady
SunMink : SunMink
congrats to the OpenSolaris community on this accomplishment
opensolaris  phipps  independence  charter  solaris  sun 
february 2006 by sogrady
Mono ships on Nexenta, OpenSolaris-based OS - Miguel de Icaza
great news - Mono shipping on Nexenta; hmm...i may have to wipe one of the servers in the office and drop in Nexenta on top of it
nexenta  mono  opensolaris 
january 2006 by sogrady
spyderous: [Gentoo] GPL OpenSolaris?
Donnie (a Gentoo dev) is psyched about the possibility of a GPL'd OpenSolaris
berkholz  gentoo  gpl  opensolaris  cddl 
january 2006 by sogrady
OpenSolaris ready to power up on IBM's PowerPC | The Register
been waiting for this for a while; should be very interesting
opensolaris  Power  portaris  ibm  sun  solaris  opensource  porting 
january 2006 by sogrady
SunMink : SunMink
while Mono's built on Solaris for a while, it's good to see OpenSolaris embracing Mono
mono  opensolaris  opensource  C#  solaris  nexenta 
january 2006 by sogrady
Nexenta Systems, Inc. - Nexenta: The Best of Both Worlds
interesting - the first GNU/OpenSolaris business that i'm aware of (via Glynn)
opensolaris  nexenta  opensource  solaris  startups 
january 2006 by sogrady
The Observation Deck
Bryan on the launch of ZFS
zfs  filesystems  opensolaris  solaris  storage  sun 
november 2005 by sogrady
ZFS Basics at OpenSolaris.org
who says file systems are boring? check out this screencast from the OpenSolaris team (via Claire)
zfs  opensolaris  screencast  filesystems 
november 2005 by sogrady
Ian Murdock’s Weblog ‽ No good deed goes unpunished
great, practical piece on Nexenta
nexenta  opensolaris  gpl  license  debian  cddl  ubuntu  opensource  murdock 
november 2005 by sogrady
Unix Admin Corner: What Dtrace can do that Systemtap can’t.
more thoughts on Dtrace vs Systemtap
dtrace  systemtap  linux  solaris  opensolaris 
october 2005 by sogrady
Looking at OpenOffice 2.0 RC
Ben reviews OpenOffice
opensolaris  solaris  cuddletech  rockwood  openoffice  oo.o 
october 2005 by sogrady
alexking.org: Blog > Let Down
somebody get that man an Ultra 20, stat - who wouldn't want an Alex King developing on Solaris? :)
ultra20  sun  solaris  opensolaris  king 
october 2005 by sogrady
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