There is a derogatory description of the editorial practices for many local news programs: "If it bleeds, it leads." Well, there is no gore here on this news channel, but maybe some bleeding, as in "bleeding edge." You can be the judge.
First of all, let me call your attention to the new BigAdmin Wiki. This is just getting started. There is great potential, and already there are some really good entries. Check out the article on Enabling Browsing with Samba under New and Recently Updated.
The Storage group has opened a whole product hub as a wiki and it is starting to take off.
If you want to compare a live ZFS file system against a ZFS snapshot of the same file system, this perl script can do that.
There is a very good new article on the PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) API with a sample program. This is actually the third article in a series by this author.
In September we released a new update to Solaris 10 (Solaris 10 8/07) and a new version of the popular Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE 9/07).
One last thing. If you haven't been to docs.sun.com for a few months, you probably haven't seen the greatly improved performance or the new search engine. Both are remarkable upgrades. On top of that, links on docs.sun.com are now much more persistent, so if you bookmark a specific page, you can count on it being there for a long time. No more frequent, unpredictable URL changes. Note that not all of the URLs have been changed, but any new sections should use the new URLs.
Welcome Jim! Great to have you out here.
Posted by Michelle on November 15, 2007 at 02:37 PM EST #