It's here!
OpenSolaris is live!
In celebration you will be giving away a Sony Hi-MD Walkman | MZ-NH1 (NIB) that's valued at ~$350.
(making it the priciest give-away we've ever given away here in MaryMaryQuiteContary land so you can get a sense for what a huge big deal this is for me. and everybody. here at Sun. and everywhere else.)
You get to give it away.
That's right -- you!
Post a comment to this blog entry naming your favorite Open Solaris blogger. (These are the guys and gals who built this monument to human achievement, people. And they're telling all in their blogs).
The OpenSolaris blogger with the most votes wins the MP3 player.
But wait, there's more.
Vote and get a free OpenSolaris t-shirt.
(feel free to wax poetic about your favorite OpenSolaris blogger
So how cool is that?
Makes you want do a little happy dance, doesn't it?
Well, just wait until you see the source. Then you're really gonna bust the move.
(makes me smile just to think about it)
So check it out, people. See what all the fuss is about.
And don't forget to post a comment to this blog entry with your favorite blogger and play a hand in giving away this spectacular prize to a very well-deserving individual.
:-)
mary
p.s. I don't get to vote. Since I'm the purveyor of this whole little escapade. But if I were voting, I'd pick Raquel and Bill.
OpenSolaris
DTracing Java for real
Adam Leventhal
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Chandan is my favorite blogger. Funny, thoughtful, technical, and lots of useful tips ... visit chandanlog(3c)
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/chandan/Posted by RyanB on June 14, 2005 at 11:43 AM PDT #
But now that I think about it, Rich is so old-school that he'd probably try to put an 8-track tape in the MP3 player, so you probably don't want to give it to him ;-)
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Posted by Tao on June 14, 2005 at 06:01 PM PDT #
Good Morning.
My Favourite Open Solaris Blogger:Peter Tribble
http://ptribble.blogspot.com/2005/06/solaris-opensolaris-which-to-run.htmlI am quite impressed with the Peter Tribble's blog of OPEN SOLARIS
There are a quite a many discussions regarding the performance issues,technical issues in his blog.
It is really helpful to know all the Techie stuffs of OPEN SOLARIS in a single blog.
I am quite interested in the Title:Solaris,Open Solaris,Which To Run?
http://ptribble.blogspot.com/2005/06/solaris-opensolaris-which-to-run.htmlCongrats Peter..
All the Best Mary.
Posted by Karthikeyan.B on June 14, 2005 at 09:03 PM PDT #
1. He fought bravely and sensibly against a Linux kernel developer who wrongly accused OpenSolaris.
2. He maintains a highly respectable blog with excellent technical information. As a student, I have learnt more about Solaris from his blogs than any other resource.
3. He is the reason why I started blogging. So please give him the prize to encourage his blogging.
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Posted by Cat on June 14, 2005 at 10:52 PM PDT #
- many new features introduced in build 14 is Solaris New Boot architecture on x86/x64 platform based on GRUB.
- Oracle 10g and Solaris Containers
Oracle considers Solaris 10 Zones as Hard Partitioning which means:
"So long as your Solaris 10 Container is tied to a resource pool limited to a number of CPUs which is less than the total number in the server, you only have to license for the number of CPUs which can be in the resource pool, not the whole server."
This is really great for consolidation on Solaris.
- iSCSI on Solaris
Well, over 500 MB/s using 10GbE and Solaris SX... sounds interesting. You can find some info here. Looks like Solaris will have full iSCSI implementation
- IBM x336
I installed Solaris 10 on IBM x336 server with Nacoona CPUs using Jump Start over a network. Generally it just works.
In order to install the server over a network I had to add to devicedb/master on a install server the following line: pci14e4,1659 pci14e4,1659 net pci none "Broadcom milek Gigabit Ethernet" as on-board Broadcom GbE's aren't recognized by default. After that installation went smoothly. Installation took less than 5 minutes :) BGE driver won't work so I had to download BCME driver from Broadcom. It does work in 64bit and Solaris 10 does boot with 64bit kernel/environment just out of the box :)
- Predictive Fault Monitoring in Sun Fire Servers.
</h3> <h2>See Some application on Solaris that helps during Data Crash</h2> <h3> AppCrash</h3> <h2> AppCrash is a interesting way of collecting information on processes which got SIGBUS or SIGSEGV. It uses DTrace and lets you decide what information is going to be extracted and send to support from a just crashed application. Basically you can do the same with core files - the advantage here is automation. If you are more advanced sys admin then in most cases you don't need AppCrash. If you are not and sending core file is a problem then it's a way to go. Maybe it's a good framework on desktops to provide something similar as in Windows. </h2> <h3>how to aDD new Disk to Solaris</h3> <h2> bash-3.00#// now I attached SCSI JBOD to c3 - let's configure them bash-3.00# cfgadm -c configure c3 bash-3.00# cfgadm -al </h2> <h2>Hey Guys See here FileSystem on Solaris Created within 20s </h2> <H3> ZFS is cool I don't know why - but I feel it's cool somehow :) Creating such a pool is not only easy - it's damn fast - I mean creating pool took less then 20s and creating filesystem took less than 3s </H3> <h2>DTracing Java!</h2> <h3> Wow! Finally some bits available to DTrace Java. Imagine you can trace Java methods similar way as C functions with PID provider! And correlate them to syscalls, in-kernel functions, IOs, etc... Whole bunch of profiling is now possible. Although it looks like it's not perfect (yet) it's definitely worth looking into. You can find some examples on Bryan's and Adam's blogs. You can download Java provider for DTrace from project page. I'm sure Java developers will love it!</h3> <h2> Some SnaPsHOTS OF sOLARIS eXPRESS installed by Milek in his Laptop based on Nevada 16 </H2> <table border=0> <TR><TD><img src="http://photos17.flickr.com/19475287_50772c726d_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="untitled1" /></TD><TD><img src="http://photos15.flickr.com/19475286_d3765a4b05_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="untitled" /></TD></TR></table> <h2> Ho i Cannot tell more about Solaris hoooooooooo! its vast like sea ,while i was blogging his site i found many other bloggers .They had provided more ebooks on performance,security issues on Solaris. </h2> <h2> Finally i want to thank Mary and Milek </h2><h3>who opened the eyes.wow many features in Solaris.please do watch his Blog </h3><h2>Give Maximum Credits to "Robert Milkowski" post comments to his blog<center><h3>Support Solaris Support Sun</h3></center></h2> </td><td> </td></tr> </TABLE> </body> </html>
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2)The Zone man (<a href = "http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/06/13/BUGOMD64QH51.DTL&type=business">Sales rep? :D - No offence) John Clingan (blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jclingan) for tech stuff & good humour
3)Bryan Cantril(http://blogs.sun.com/bmc) for the most geeky blog
4)Tim Marsland (http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/tpm) for enlightening us on Solariz on X64
Posted by Bharath on June 15, 2005 at 02:09 AM PDT #
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Visit his blog at http://ptribble.blogspot.com <marquee><img src="http://lib1.store.vip.sc5.yahoo.com/lib/jewelryboxshop/Solaris-open.jpg"><b size=10 color=#123ada>SOLARIS</marquee>
Posted by Karthikeyan.B on June 15, 2005 at 05:34 AM PDT #
Posted by Mike Dunbar on June 15, 2005 at 05:55 AM PDT #
Hi Mary, Do Visit Milek's Blog at Solaris .He has Experienced Solaris.You can find Best Resource on Solaris from this Blog.He also has links to other blogs.Posted by Suresh on June 15, 2005 at 06:39 AM PDT #
But I'd like to cast my vote for favorite OpenSolaris blogger.
That definately has to be Ben Rockwood.
He's not a Sun employee, which is a plus when you're giving away something (better to give to the external community in my opinion for this). Possibly because he's not a Sun employee, he doesn't have to hold back on what he says. Like in his response to HP's VP Martin Fink. Or his exchange with Bruce Perens on Slashdot that he also blogged about. And his blog entry More Linux FUD. Plus the OpenSolaris User Group videos he makes and posts.
This is the type of advocacy that open source projects need and it's great to have someone like that as part of OpenSolaris. They guy seems veyr dedicated to the project.
Now there are also a lot of great OpenSolaris bloggers at Sun that provide great information on many different aspects of OpenSolaris, from the pilot program, to functionality and other issues. But OpenSolaris is about building a community that extends past Sun's campuses. Jim Grisanzio's blog is great and I read it frequently, but he works for Sun. OpenSolaris may be a passionate topic for him but it's also his job. People like Ben Rockwood show why Sun is open sourcing Solaris, why Solaris users will benefit. They show it's a real thing and not just some PR/Marketting ploy.
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Posted by Simos Xenitelis on June 15, 2005 at 11:15 PM PDT #
the world cries for security
he answers "why don't you use opensolaris?"
everybody reply "do you have a methodology?"
he says "of course read this!"
my vote goes to Glenn Brunette
Posted by Benjamin Brumaire on June 16, 2005 at 01:26 AM PDT #
i discovered a cool place where we can chill out with Open Solaris.
Even we can see the all day happenings of OPEN SOLARIS in a single blog
Really a appreciatable effot
My Favourite blogger:<b size=10>Peter Tribble
Some of the techies from his blog
<b size=10>Some OpenSolaris utilities1. /usr/bin/du and /usr/xpg4/bin/du
This is a merge of the behaviour of the Solaris and XPG4 versions of the du command. Specifically, it lets each understand the other one's options (for example, the regular du understands -x as it should), and adds the -m flag so they can output in megabytes. Building this in isolation is a bit tricky. At the top level you need to (modify as appropriate for an x86 build): mkdir -p proto/root_sparc/usr/include mkdir -p proto/root_sparc/lib cp usr/src/lib/libcmdutils/libcmdutils.h proto/root_sparc/usr/include cp /lib/libcmdutils.so.1 proto/root_sparc/lib/libcmdutils.so
2. Enhanced ptimeThis prints out the timings from ptime to full nanosecond (rather than the default millisecond) precision. Note that the hardware or the OS might not actually be that accurate, but you get all the precision that's available. (This is especially useful for timing short commands on a brand new Opteron box - I was getting fed up with seeing 0.000s returned!) Again a little tweak to build in isolation (and you have to make ptime from the directory above the source): mkdir -p proto/root_sparc/usr/include cp usr/src/lib/libproc/common/libproc.h proto/root_sparc/usr/include
3. Enhanced prtpicl
This adds a -n option to allow selection of items by picl name as well as (or instead) of their picl class. It allows more flexibility in winnowing the prtpicl output to give you exactly what you want.
4.Tweaked /usr/ucb/df
This cleans up and speeds up the shell script that is /usr/ucb/df. This also fixes bug 4838106.
4. Enhanced /usr/ucb/ls
This adds support for the -e, -E, -h, -@, -S and -n flags to /usr/ucb/ls. This is an ugly hack. There is an umbrella rfe to drag the ucb stuff into the 21st century, and this is just a short-term fix to get some of the more important enhancements in the main ls back to the ucb version.
See More things about Open solaris at http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/opensolaris-utils.html The man made out of OPEN SOLARIS.Posted by Karthikeyan.B on June 16, 2005 at 03:34 AM PDT #
Posted by Brent Vukmer on June 16, 2005 at 05:04 AM PDT #
I like the T-shirt and I want it ;) I like Mary.
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