Casper Dik's Weblog

Tuesday April 26, 2005

Netherlands/Benelux OpenSolaris/Solaris Usergroup A few of our customers approached me to start a Solaris user group in the Netherlands (or perhaps a somewhat larger area)

Any takers? Perhaps offers of venues, talks wanted?

For those who don't know, I am based in the Netherlands. (2005-04-26 13:38:40.0) Permalink Comments [5]

Yet Another Desktop/Laptop Usability Step "Solaris Nevada" build 14 is proving to be another quantum leap for Solaris desktop usability.

I discussed the new USB hotplug support in vold before, but in the last few days we've also gotten the virtual keyboard/mouse driver in the next Solaris release. People often complained about the fact that their laptop keyboard died until the next reboot when they plugged in a USB or other keyboard. Well, not anymore! We now have virtualized keyboard and mouse drivers which collect events from all available keyboards and present them through a single virtual keyboard and mouse. It is also still possible to use the devices as seprate devices in case you have a multi-head/multi-user environment, but for the common case of a single system with multiple keyboard (laptop + keyboard) this is another big step.

You can plug in the other keyboard at any time, running under X or the commandline, it just works. (2005-04-26 04:49:55.0) Permalink Comments [2]

Solaris FAQ Updated For the first time in many years (2.5 years) I've updated the Solaris FAQ

Much more work is needed on it but at least this is a start. I'm hoping to update it more regularly now. It's also still here but it seems to be doing fine there. (2005-04-26 04:45:12.0) Permalink Comments [3]