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| 06 Jul 2006 | Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group - July 11 |
| 04 Jul 2006 | ON nightly 20060703 |
| 01 Jul 2006 | NexentaOS: build 43 live upgrade ready |
| 30 Jun 2006 | June Docs Consolidation available |
| 30 Jun 2006 | NexentaOS: build 43 live upgrade ready |
News
Sun's open-source odyssey | CNet | 07/06/2006
Among the reasons Sun Microsystems has been out of favor with Wall Street for years is the company's inability to fully profit from its clever inventions, notably those in software. With the company now pursuing another turnaround, the nub of Sun's software game plan can be boiled down to two words: open source.
Are companies opening up to Solaris? | ZDNet Asia | 07/03/2006
Developer interest in OpenSolaris in Asia is brewing, but it remains to be seen if that has translated into services revenues for its creator, Sun Microsystems.
Solaris dials domain zero with Xen | The Register | 06/29/2006
Sun Microsystems will release sample code next month giving Solaris 10 its first injection of virtualization on Intel and AMD hardware, finally expected in 2007.
Live Upgrade in Debian/NexentaOS environment | NewsForge | 06/22/2006
Erast writes "NexentaOS GNU/OpenSolaris is built on top of solid Debian/Ubuntu ground and enterprise level OpenSolaris core. Before Alpha 5 was released the only option to upgrade OpenSolaris core bits were to backup user's data and re-install new ISO. But not anymore. Alpha 5 brings ability to perform OpenSolaris core live upgrade and significantly reduces the downtime associated with an operating system upgrade or maintenance."
OpenSolaris: Success Story, or Too Soon to Say? | Tech News World | 06/21/2006
Sun Microsystems is touting the growth of its one-year-old open source Latest News about open source project OpenSolaris, indicating the open code effort for its formerly closed Solaris operating system TechNet Security Center: Tools & Guidance to Defend Your Network has drawn thousands of developers, hundreds of contributions, and millions in revenue.
Blogs
Simon Phipps - links for 2006-07-11
Jul 10, 6:17 PM
Open Source RPG Apps: The 'Bright Future' That Didn't Happen Amazing where I get quoted - this uses a quote from an article I wrote in 2002 to show the RPG software industry as wanting with regard to ...
Simon Phipps - Loosely-Coupled Workflows
Jul 10, 5:41 PM
Back in 1997, I was working to evangelise XML as the data format of the future. One of the common questions I was asked was "where should I use XML". I explained back then that XML was ideal as a ...
Richard Friedman - Solaris OS vs Linux for Application Developers
Jul 10, 2:23 PM
There's a new article by Max Bruning on the Solaris Developer's portal: Comparison of Solaris OS and Linux for Application Developers " This article discusses similarities and differences that will ...
Bill Rushmore - The power of inner classes
Jul 10, 1:35 PM
When Java 1.1 came out I was a little intimidated by inner classes. I think the biggest reason was you couldn't (at the time) represent them in the UML tools. I did a lot of AWT programming then and ...
benr@cuddletech.com - Sun Studio 11 Express
Jul 10, 12:50 PM
Sun Studio fans everywhere can rejoice, apparently we now have early access to new developments in Sun Studio by way of Sun Studio Express ! Just put in your email address and download. The June ...
Glenn M. Brunette, Jr. - Solaris Package Companion v0.6
Jul 10, 11:47 AM
Well, it is time for another update of the Solaris Package Companion . During the course of some additional testing, I found a few bugs which I have corrected in this new version. The biggest issue ...
Martin Englund - Things you can't live without on Mac OS X
Jul 10, 11:04 AM
I've been reinstalling Mac OS X on my MacMini (I wanted a case sensitive file system), and have started to add all the little things a Mac OS X user can't live without. Since I'm a newbie on Mac OS ...
Kuldip Oberoi - Sun Studio Express: Open Door Development
Jul 10, 11:02 AM
One of recent developments that I'm excited about is the new Sun Studio Express program we just launched. I like to call it "open door" development. What does this mean? In an effort to widen the ...
benr@cuddletech.com - BayLISA Special Event Thursday
Jul 10, 10:52 AM
Since so many of us are good Time Management students and we've done our 10 minute outline of the day this morning I thought I'd give you something to pencil into your week. BayLISA is having a ...
Richard Friedman - Cody's on Telegraph Avenue Closes!
Jul 10, 10:49 AM
Sunday, Cody's Books in Berkeley closed its flagship store on Telegraph Avenue. Ironically, it was also the 50th anniversary of Cody's Bookstore. There was a party and I took some pictures. They're ...