OpenSolaris Blog

Many ques­tions have been asked regard­ing how to update Open­So­laris to vol­un­tary build. In this post I’ll show how to update from one build to b126, for exam­ple.
beadm cre­ate snv-126
beadm mount snv-126 /mnt
pkg install –R /mnt entire@0.5.11,5.11–0.126
bootadm update-archive –R /mnt
beadm unmount snv-126
beadm acti­vate snv-126
reboot

I just found one inter­est­ing post how to install net­work dri­ver on Open­So­laris. Hope some­one will find it use­ful. Orig­i­nal author is Allen Sanabria.
Now Open­So­laris is not as pop­u­lar as Linux so there are not as many devices sup­ported as there are for Linux (So bare that in mind). When I first installed Open­So­laris and OpenSolaris […]

Thanks to one of Open­So­laris’ sis­ter com­mu­ni­ties — BeleniX, its founder Moinak Ghosh wrote one nice script and a blog post how to use it and build Open­So­laris from source. I’m glad to present his work and here is excerpt from his post:
The util­ity takes a work­space con­tain­ing the Open­So­laris build snap­shot tar­balls and patches to apply and […]

This video might be inter­ested to show full poten­tial of ZFS. It has been done on a funny way but it still show full advan­tage of ZFS over other file systems.

Our web pages finally went to pub­lic and con­tent started being added each day. I’m more than happy wait­ing this day and see how our small com­mu­nity start to grow. So far, we have more than 50 reg­is­tered mem­bers and this num­ber grows up each day. I saw that many peo­ple ask about user­name and pass­word when they […]

On Decem­ber 1^st, Open­So­laris 2009.06 will be shipped with Decem­ber issue of regional (Ser­bian) Com­puter World mag­a­zine. I believe that it will be the best oppor­tu­nity to show the wider com­mu­nity what Open­So­laris is and what it would be in near future. As IT tech­nol­ogy sec­tor becomes more mature, crack­ing Oper­at­ing Sys­tems will be more and […]

Usu­ally, when pro­gram­mer starts to learn new lan­guage first code she or he writes is well known “Hello World”. Hav­ing that in my mind I named my first post with that name. I wanted to tell the world that I’m new in this emerg­ing blog world and I have to learn a lot since this is my first blog […]