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News
Ian Murdock Talks About OpenSolaris’ Upcoming First Release | Think Future Group | 04/21/2008
Sun's Ian Murdock gave a presentation about OpenSolaris at LugRadio Live this past weekend. He explained how OpenSolaris reflects Sun's changing platform strategy and also discussed some of the technical attributes that differentiate OpenSolaris from Linux. Murdock explained that Sun's traditional strengths in the enterprise are being overshadowed by significant changes in the market and in software adoption processes. He pointed out that much of the success that Linux has enjoyed in the server room is a result of its increasing popularity on the desktop among system administrators and other IT specialists. This is because people tend to deploy the technologies that are most accessible to them, he argues.
Solaris ZFS: Here Comes The Hammer | Blog: On The Record, Daniel Berthiaume | 04/18/2008
At the Sun Tech Days event this month in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sun's Jim Hughes found a unique way to... um... hammer home a point about the capabilities of Solaris ZFS. Wielding a sledgehammer and standing in front of approximately 2,000 audience members... actually, the video tells the story better than words ever could. Check out ZFS "Hammer Time" and see for yourself.
Sun xVM Ops Center | ZDNet, Dan Kusnetzky | 04/18/2008
I’ve long known that Sun is one of the few suppliers that has an entry in nearly every virtualization software category listed in the Kusnetzky Group Model. This not only allows the company to address organization’s requirements at almost every level. This also means that I don’t have a chance to address everything they’re doing here........Here’s a bit about Sun’s xVM Ops Center and my take on what clearly is a powerful product for Sun’s own Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) environments.
Sun Updates Streaming System, Adds Solaris Support | The Unix Guardian, Timothy Prickett-Morgan | 04/17/2008
A year ago, Sun Microsystems launched the Streaming System, a cluster of Linux-based application servers and storage servers and a new video stream switch, that Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim was creating when he was working in stealth mode at Kealia, a company Sun acquired in February 2004 to get Bechtolsheim back on board and to flesh out its server, storage, and switch product lines. This week, Sun is making some of the modules of the Streaming System software available on Solaris as well as Linux and is also allowing it to run on smaller Sun boxes.
BeleniX 0.7 OpenSolaris Desktop | Blog: Phoronix | 04/16/2008
Long before Sun's Project Indiana came about, BeleniX has been one of our favorite GNU/Solaris distributions. BeleniX has been a LiveCD based upon OpenSolaris, but with yesterday's release of BeleniX 0.7 it is now a source-level derivative of the Project Indiana blend of OpenSolaris. Today we're taking a quick look at this new release.
Blogs
Wolfgang Rosenberg (Intel) - International Workshop on Multicore Software Engineering (IWMSE)
May 9, 3:15 PM
Stay tuned about the upcoming workshop. We are expecting interesting discussions about Threading Building Blocks between the subject matter experts, the audience and you. The International Multicore ...
David Stewart (Intel) - OpenSolaris on Xeon video, Episode 2 - Saving Power
May 9, 3:00 PM
Here is the second installment of my series of 5 minute videos on Intel's OpenSolaris project work. In this segment, I talk about what we're doing to try saving the planet for our grandchildren. It's ...
barton808 - Chatting with David Miner of OpenSolaris
May 9, 2:48 PM
Right before CommunityOne kicked off this Monday and OpenSolaris 2008.05 was launched, I was able to grab Dave Miner for a podcast. Dave is another one of the big brains behind OpenSolaris and is ...
Paul Steinberg (Intel) - Reaching out to the Academic Community
May 9, 1:38 PM
I am happy to launch my first Blog post as a member of Intel's Software College and Academic Community. Much of this first post is introductionary & I am looking for your feedback. I am working ...
qyjohn - Norovirus
May 9, 1:13 PM
Last night, Matt sent out a notice to our team that some of our SDN editors working at the JavaOne site had come down with flu-like symptoms. Early in the morning, all JavaOne attendees received an ...
darren - Worst (and Best) keyboards
May 9, 1:11 PM
Seems like for some reason I didn't actually post this when I wrote it on Jan 10th 2008, so I'll post it now I've just read over the PC World "10 Worst Keyboards of all time" article . Out of the 10 ...
darren - Missing Apple Mac hardware
May 9, 1:10 PM
My current home machine is a first generation (ordered the day after the announcement) PPC Mac Mini. I initially ordered it with 512Mb RAM and no WiFi or Bluetooth. It has since been upgraded to 1G ...
barton808 - Talking to Stephan Hahn and David Comay of OpenSolaris
May 9, 1:09 PM
I recently caught up with two of the big brains behind OpenSolaris , Stephen Hahn and David Comay to discuss the launch of OpenSolaris 2008.5 and a lot of the work and thinking that has gone into it. ...
esofthub - Shell Based Random Number Generator
May 9, 11:20 AM
I observed a a few searches in my metadata stats for a shell based random generator. I know Korn, Bash, and Z Shell shells support a RANDOM variable. Depending on the shell, I will use a print and/or ...
sommerfeld - Nice review of OpenOffice..
May 9, 10:01 AM
A few good words for OpenOffice from the Instapundit..