As a part of a process of extending language/locale support in OpenSolaris we started to prioritize locales that are missing in OpenSolaris but are available on other systems. We already collected decent amount of data and now we would like to get input from you!

We also want to use this opportunity to find out what other globalization features (localization, translations, available encodings...) are important for you.

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Customizing IIIM (Internet/Intranet Input Methods) in Solaris & OpenSolaris

A frequently asked question these days is how to customize IIIM (Input Methods) in OpenSolaris; it is difficult to find any value information on how to work with or how to modify the IIIM. There are some projects being developed to make IIIM more user-friendly but most probably they wont be finished soon, or at least they have not been finished yet.

I played a bit with IIIM data on my installed system and I was able to customize my keyboard layout with Input Methods; it might not be a very elegant way how to do it, but it works and it is very easy to do, so here is it...[Read More]

Last Saturday (Dec, 6th), I had a chance to attend OpenSolaris seminar organized by Czech OpenSolaris User Group (CZOSUG). The seminar was focused on a new release of OpenSolaris 2008.11, its new features like Time Slider, Distribution Constructor (DC), latest versions of SW, updated Package Manager, etc.

One part of the event was an install-fest where everyone could install the latest version of OpenSolaris into his/her laptop and try cool features immediately. After the install-fest, presentations about the key features were introduced ...

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As some users are preferring command line utilities or simply need them for working remotely I was looking for some CLI bittorrent client for Solaris and found one which works pretty well. You can get the client from Blastwave:

http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/bittorrent

Use "pkg-get -i bittorrent" to get CSWbittorrent package or if you have OpenSolaris binary distro there is also IPS package at http://blastwave.network.com:10000/.

Once you have it installed the usage is quite simple. I like to monitor download status so for that I'm using "--spew" parameter to display diagnostic info to stdout:

$ btdownloadcurses --spew 1 --url <url>

And here's how it looks:

Last time we needed to edit SVR4 package, we hit a couple problems with compressing the cpio archive.

Here is our how to

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