Roman Shaposhnik's

I'm a fundamental believer in scratching your own itch to be the best kind of motivation for software development. And Project D-Light is not an exception here: if I want it to be useful for others I have to make it useful to myself. Of course, given that Project D-Light tries to utilize the most cutting edge features of the DTrace technology it just makes sense to run it on the most recent build of Solaris. And the fact that we are building a tool first and foremost for the developers pretty much narrows the choice to the Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE 5/07).

Of course these days I do most of my development on my laptop (good old ThinkPad T43) but the Solaris OS that I have there is kind of clunky. It is a heavily tweaked Solaris 10, which serves more as a proof that it is possible to run Solaris 10 on a ThinkPad after all, rather than a convenient development environment. In short I had all the reasons to upgrade when I settled on a quest for the ultimate development environment based on Solaris OS. The rest is my account of this quest. You've been warned ;-)[Read More]