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Silicon Island: ZFS, meet users, users, meet ZFS
snapshots + backups are an excellent idea, in general
zfs  nautilus  linux  solaris  snapshots  gnome  backup 
october 2008 by sogrady
Sun Jumps Into Flash - Forbes.com
and it's about time, too. i wish vendors were pushing harder to drive ssd's, thereby compressing the cost.
sun  flash  ssd  storage  solaris 
june 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
Meet the world's premier open source vendor - Sun | The Register
interesting piece by Ashlee. skeptical of the "potential Linux re-entry" angle - the affection for Solaris is systemic and entrenched - but it's otherwise solid
mysql  sun  ashleevance  linux  solaris  opensource 
january 2008 by sogrady
The Zone Manager: The WordPress® 2-Step
interesting explanation of how to install WordPress within a Solaris zone
solaris  wordpress  zones  howto  via:matt 
january 2008 by sogrady
TransactionalZFSUpgrades - Nexenta Project Wiki
interesting amalgamation of Solaris and Debian technologies
solaris  debian  apt  nexenta  upgrade  zfs  via:jdub 
january 2008 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
Joyeur: Using DTrace on MySQL
"Even though there aren’t DTrace probes for MySQL released yet, we can still get useful information from MySQL." - interesting application of DTrace. somewhat surprised there aren't probes.
debugging  dtrace  mysql  solaris 
october 2007 by sogrady
Erwann Chénedé's Weblog
interesting. compiz is already up and running on Solaris.
compiz  solaris  3d  desktop  gnome  graphics  via:glynn 
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
Dtrace Review
Cantrill presenting to the folks at Google, discusses a port to Linux around 1:10
bryancantrill  google  solaris  dtrace  linux  porting 
august 2007 by sogrady
IBM Expresses Interest in OpenSolaris for System Z Project | Sine Nomine Associates
"The OpenSolaris for System Z project has continued to make substantive technical progress since its inception in July 2006 and the progress report presentation SNA gave at the IBM System Z Technical Exposition in April 2007."
ibm  sun  solaris  zseries  porting  sinenomine 
august 2007 by sogrady
IBM and Sun, sitting in a tree, S-O-L-A-R-I-S-I-N-G at Pensieri di un lunatico minore
"Honestly? I think it is one of the few times I’d say “win-win” applies. IBM isn’t the company they were 20 years ago, and Sun is obviously not either. Next up? Solaris on z/Series. You think I’m joking? It’s already started."
ibm  sun  solaris  oem  x86  zseries 
august 2007 by sogrady
Colin Charles Agenda » Blog Archive » OpenSolaris: Even the download system puts you off
"An OpenSolaris newbie like me, ended up picking the Community edition...all 3 1GB zip files, you get the pleasure of unzipping...every one of them, and then...use cat to make them into one large DVD ISO." - marked as NI, for Needs Improvement
sun  solaris  express  Community  distribution 
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
Intel® Software Network Blogs » Blog Archive » Why Linux people lust after DTrace
some thoughts from an Intel dev on the value of the observability DTrace provides
dtrace  solaris  linux  observability  intel 
may 2007 by sogrady
MySQL DBA: DTrace and MySQL - 1
"You can then apply that knowledge to find all the hidden performance goodies of MySQL on Solaris 10. Sounds good?"
mysql  dtrace  solaris 
may 2007 by sogrady
Trusted Operating Systems at Mental Rootkit
as Michael says, this is an interesting look at the approaches taken by Linux & Solaris to deliver operating systems that meet high security needs; a little biased towards Linux, but not overly so
trusted  operatingsystems  linux  solaris  security  via:Michael 
may 2007 by sogrady
Joyeur: Joyeur: Joyent Announces Sun Hosting Partnership and New Hosting Service Discounts for Startups
excellent to see a hosting component to Startup Essentials; it potentially removes the question of "ok, i got a box, now what do i do?"
joyent  startupessentials  sun  solaris  Accelerators 
may 2007 by sogrady
Joyeur: Joyeur: Solaris, DTrace and Rails
talked to Jason about this last night at Faultline; how to leverage differentiating technologies 101
solaris  dtrace  rails  joyent  jasonhoffman 
april 2007 by sogrady
» Apple’s new kick-butt file system | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com
ZFS should be a very interesting addition to the Apple lineup, for many of the reasons mentioned here
zfs  sun  solaris  apple  osx  via:Simon 
april 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
Digg - Sun Hires Debian GNU/Linux Founder
interesting comment on the Digg story: why one Linux user doesn't use Solaris (package management and userland feature prominently, as you might expect)
digg  comment  solaris  linux  gnu  userland 
march 2007 by sogrady
The Year of OpenSolaris
"it'll take a software management system overhaul to bring Solaris' software tools up to the level to which Linux users, administrators and developers have become accustomed." - yup, and as i told an audience thurs, it's the biggest drawback now
solaris  packagemanagement  via:Simon  linux  sysadmins  conary 
march 2007 by sogrady
/~colmmacc/ » Blog Archive » More Ubuntu on T2000
Mike just linked to this, and i remember seeing this at the time - fascinating results, and great for Ubuntu; wonder what they're at now, a year later
ubuntu  solaris  solarisexpress  t2000  niagara  benchmarks 
march 2007 by sogrady
Michael Dolan Dot Com » Novell architect (ex-Sun) Slams Sun / Solaris
Mike and i mostly agree to disagree with respect to Solaris - this is one such occasion: is the binary compatability story perfect? nope. but a.) Linux isn't exactly obsessed with ABI, and b.) talk to ISVs about going from SuSE to RHEL (agree on 277 tho)
michaeldolan  solaris  sparc  abi  binary  compatibility 
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
ongoing · AMP R Us
"The job isn’t finished yet, until all of Apache and MySQL and PostgreSQL and PHP and Python and and Ruby and Rails are in the package, all optimized for Solaris, all stuffed with DTrace probes" - exactly right
ruby  railsapache  mysql  php  python  dtrace  django  solaris  opensolari  samp 
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
New servers for WordPress.com « Barry on WordPress
lots of interesting tidbits in here; good read on what scaling means from a hosting perspective
hosting  serverbeach  servepath  joyent  TextDrive  debian  solaris  zfs 
january 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
Why do geeks have lust for ZFS? at zamwi.com
"In the recent builds of Apple’s new operating system, Mac OS X Leopard, developers have started noticing that there is an option to format a partition using ZFS" - this is potentially very interesting; i'm hopeful we'll see ZFS on Linux someday
zfs  apple  leopard  osx  solaris  filesystems  via:Mark 
january 2007 by sogrady
Sun to License OpenSolaris Under GPLv3
"Take the GNU Userland, which is an interesting piece of technology that Sun is looking at closely, and we may do something similar with, say, a container flavor," he said. - no secret, i'm a big fan of this approach
gnuuserland  kernel  solaris  gplv3  cddl  licensing  opensource 
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
Jokosher on Solaris
audio editing software porting to Solaris
solaris  jokosher  opensource  audio  editing 
december 2006 by sogrady
Is 'GNU/Solaris' emerging from Microsoft-Novell deal? | The Register
"could we see a GNU/Solaris system?" - we have already: it's called Nexenta
nexenta  gnu  linux  solaris  via:Raven  stallman  torvalds  gplv3 
december 2006 by sogrady
Who Else Gains from a GPL'd Java? | Linux Journal
appreciate the kind words from Glyn; read this, b/c he covers a couple of things i missed - notably the impact on Stallman, and provides more historical context
java  gpl  linux  sunos  solaris  moody 
november 2006 by sogrady
Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog : Weblog
"Do Operating Systems Matter?" - a question i've been pondering quite a bit of late; my answer is yes - more on why later (yes it ties back to the virtualization questions)
virtualization  support  isvs  operating  systems  solaris  linux  redhat 
november 2006 by sogrady
OpenSolaris Forums: ON Mercurial repository mirror ...
couple of folks have linked to this: Solaris being opened via mercurial; the SCM was one of several discussed yesterday in #redmonk - we may have to start using one more frequently
mercurial  solaris 
october 2006 by sogrady
ongoing · Upcoming Gig: Zend PHP Conference
Tim's right; this should be a fun session - hope to see you there
zend  php  conference  solaris  sun  Bray  stacks 
september 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
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
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
hello to you!: IBM vs. Sun and Open Source 2.0
Gentoo's founder on the IBM OpenSolaris comments from News.com; i'll have more on this soon - but the short version is that i don't agree w/ IBM here, nor do i think things like this are productive
ibm  sun  solaris  robbins  gentoo  frye  linux  opensource 
august 2006 by sogrady
The Observation Deck
DTrace running in OS X? very interesting, and a nice little win for the Solaris folks
solaris  dtrace  os-x  apple  opensource 
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
ZFS on FUSE - Wizy Wiki
this is definitely a project to watch
via:Simon  bsd  google  soc  solaris  zfs  fuse  linux  filesystem 
july 2006 by sogrady
Frontier seeks online bookings boost with tech upgrade
yes, this a mildly interesting Windows to Solaris migration case study - but i'm more interested in what this means to me as a customer of Frontier's
frontier  solaris  windows  migration  via:Simon 
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
jdk-distros: View announcement
more takeup for Java post-DLJ (via Simon)
phipps  dlj  java  belenix  solaris  opensolaris 
may 2006 by sogrady
Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Kudos to the Shadowman
shuttleworth thanking Red Hat, interesting and thoughtful commentary; one wondersShuttleworth is turning out to be the Diplomat of the Linux community - note the inclusion of OpenSolaris
redhat  shuttleworth  diplomacy  ubuntu  linux  gnu  solaris 
may 2006 by sogrady
Life at Eclipse: Hell Froze Over?
love the title, but humor aside, this is good to see
eclipse  x86  solaris  sun  NetBeans 
may 2006 by sogrady
Open Source Java, Part 3 - Miguel de Icaza
very interesting and thoughtful piece from Miguel on open sourcing Java; check out especially his commentary on OO.o and Solaris - as well as the comparions in the last sentence
deicaza  sun  opensource  java  mono  f/oss  dlj  licensing  solaris  oo.o 
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
AC/OS: Open Solaris at Linux's expense?
Asay's skeptical of some positive press for Solaris; there's some truth to what he says, but i think he undersells Solaris fairly significantly - it's not one or the other, there's room for both
solaris  asay  linux  redhat  novell 
may 2006 by sogrady
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