Build native Hadoop Libraries for Solaris

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 19:02 — Stefan Schneider

Need to make Hadoop fly on Solaris?

Here's the article which teaches you to build the native libraries to expedite operations.

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John Fowler announces Oracle Solaris 11.1

Wed, 10/03/2012 - 17:16 — Stefan Schneider

John Fowler SVP Oracle Systems Egineering just announced Oracle Solaris 11.1 at Oracle Open World. Key features are

The dark side of Java: Java IAQ (Infrequently Answered Questions)

Tue, 04/17/2012 - 16:31 — Stefan Schneider

Interesting collection of questions from Peter Norvig: "Infrequently Answered Questions". There are some scary corner cases...

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Solaris 11 Changes: Changing the Node Name (nodename) of a System

Thu, 03/15/2012 - 16:04 — Stefan Schneider

The nodename is getting managed through SMF in Solaris 11. There is now one central place to manage the nodename.

Solaris 11 Changes: Managing Name Services (formerly known as /etc/resolv.conf)

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 08:51 — Stefan Schneider

Oracle Solaris 11 is leaving the SVR4 file based system administration of Solaris 10 behind. It uses SMF to manage the configuration state of many services.

The /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file became a read only file which reflects the current state of the SMF service. Changes in the name resolution now require the following thress steps

Solaris Binary Application Guarantee extended to Solaris 11

Wed, 12/21/2011 - 17:22 — Stefan Schneider

The Oracle Solaris Binary Application Guarantee is now covering Oracle Solaris 10 as well as 11. Oracle extended the program through 2013. The program covers a source code guarantee as well as a binary guarantee. Details can be found in the program description.

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Advent, Advent

Fri, 12/02/2011 - 20:56 — Stefan Schneider

This is a student exercise which didn't work out. I planned to implement everything in a nice 2 class environment. The calendar turned out to be so simple that it was more natural to just code it in one class.

I omit I haven't been able to stop...

Solaris 11 Version Schema

Thu, 11/24/2011 - 19:33 — Stefan Schneider

Solaris 11 is public available and the IPS package management is setting new standards in Solaris administration and version management.

Everyone who develops software for this platform will want to make sure that the application users are using the optimal Solaris 11 infrastructure. The Oracle binary guarantee warrants that an application will work on any Solaris 11 release no matter which minor revision the kernel has. It's however a reasonable idea to ask a user to be at same minimum patch level you qualified your application on.

Silicon Valley: The day after Steve Jobs passed away (Photo blog)

Fri, 10/07/2011 - 19:53 — Stefan Schneider

Apple Store Downtown San Francisco

7:30 AM in the morning, San Francisco Market Street

Oracle Solaris 11 Early Adopter Version available for Download (Final Functionality)

Fri, 09/09/2011 - 17:27 — Stefan Schneider

Update

The original page is outdated. Oracle released Solaris 11. It is available through the Oracle download pages.

The early adopter release shouldn't be used anymore. It can't meet the qualitity standards of a servicable main stream OS version.

Original Content

Oracle is getting closer to the release of Solaris 11.

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