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Presenting Illumos at SVOSUG
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
I'm pleased to announce that I'll be giving a brief talk at this month's SVOSUG meeting, Thursday Aug 26, at 6:45 pm in Mountain View. It will cover Illumos, and I will be joined by a colleague who will talk a bit more about Nexenta as well. If you're in the Bay Area at that time, it would be great to have a chance to meet.I expect there will be some (probably significant) consumption of alcoholic beverages after the meeting, at an as yet undetermined location.
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Fishworks history of SSDs
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
This year’s flash memory summit got me thinking about our use of SSDs over the years at Fishworks. The picture of our left is a visual history of SSD evals in rough chronological order from the oldest at the bottom to the newest at the top (including some that have yet to see the light [...]
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More new stuff...
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
I've been pretty busy with Illumos lately, but last week I took a few days off for family time.One of the things I did was take my son (9 years old) out to the Kern River to try some whitewater kayaking. This was his first time on moving water, and it amazed me how quickly he picked up basic concepts. He was doing ferries, peel outs, and eddy turns like a champ after about 20-30 minutes. Amazing. He didn't even swim his first day -- he elected to stay in his boat (actually trying to do a roll) until I could give him an Eskimo rescue. (His only swim that day was when he got flipped by one of the holes in Riverside Park.)He did get a good swim on the second day, when we were working on ferries though the much faster swift water running at the bottom of Ewings rapid. His first ferry was quite high into the rapid itself, and clean, but the second time he went for a swim. Came up happy and smiling, ready to try again if we had had the time.I wish I had some pictures.Guess I'm gonna have to get the kid a boat soon. He wants to try kayak surfing with me, and he really wants to learn to roll. Too bad there are no vendors that offer whitewater boats small enough for kids in southern California. We probably won't make it to Kernville again until next season. :-(
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Oracle, OpenSolaris and Acceptance
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
A lot has been said about Oracle and OpenSolaris since the Sun acquisition has been concluded. I’ll try to offer my view on the recent events more as an effort to consolidate my perception of what happened to OpenSolaris than to document history in any form. As always, keep in mind that I’m a sysadmin [...]
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Milestone Commit for Illumos
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
Richard Lowe has just made a milestone change to the Illumos repository.Its a milestone for two reasons:a) It is the first commit from another developer other than me. (Other developers have code in progress, but not yet ready to commit, but soon!) This also makes it truly a community project, since Rich has no affiliation with me other than as a participant in the Illumos project.b) It eliminates the dependency on the Oracle "extra" repository, which required folks to get a certificate to access non-redistributable code in order to build illumos.Thank you very much Rich. I'm looking forward to more integrations from developers soon!
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The Hand May Be Forced
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
Well, as you may have read, Oracle has decided that at some point very soon, we're going to lose normal regular access to the source code for OS/Net. (I.e. the Solaris kernel and supporting programs.)While I would have vastly preferred for Illumos to have a cooperative and collaborative relationship with Oracle, it appears that Oracle doesn't value this. In fact, the exact words were from the management at Oracle were as follows:Solaris is not something we outsource to others, it is not the assembly of someone else’s technology, and it is not a sustaining-only product.While I understand the need to own the technology, there are few things that could be stated that show a stronger NIH attitude than this. Its unlikely that there will ever be a way for Oracle and the greater community to have a collaborative relationship.This is a dark day for OpenSolaris -- its effectively dead now. (Its parent, Solaris, lives on however.)How unfortunate.For Oracle that is.Because from the fertile ashes of the dead springs forth new life bringing hope and light in the form of Illumos. Illumos has garnered the support of some of the top minds in the industry; already the list of names of Solaris contributors and potential contributors that have already publicly committed to supporting this project is extensive. Many of the names are famous, people like Bryan Cantrill. Oracle's actions and inaction have actually made this possible.I can also say, the list goes even further -- considerably so. I have had private conversations with quite a few other people who have quietly committed to involvement. Some of the names are very surprising, and I hope that they will soon be in a position to announce their involvement for themselves. These are people that are big name contributors; folks who have made very large numbers of code commits to Solaris -- some of the deepest and most "challenging" parts of Solaris, too.The upshot of this is that the future for Illumos is surprisingly bright. Rather than a dependency on the good will of one corporate sponsor with dubious intentions, the project will have the diverse backing of some of the most well-known innovators (and their employers) from the OpenSolaris -- nay, Open Source -- community. So, by their actions here, Oracle may be forcing Illumos to "fork", which was always a prospect, even if not one I cherished. But with the backing of the innovators I know who are with us, I think we have a chance to actually be the premiere foundation for SunOS derived technology. Oracle may be investing more into Solaris, but if the best and brightest have left for greener pastures and are contributing to Illumos, then I think we'll have the "best" investments in the base. Following Oracle's lead when the brightest minds have already left looks less and less desirable by the moment. (And to be fair, there are still many bright folks within the Solaris organization at Oracle. But the balance is changing, and changing in favor of Illumos and the open development community.)Oracle Solaris will not be the only source for this technology, and now it appears it may not even be the best source for this technology.I once said I never intended for Illumos to compete with Solaris. That was true, but if Oracle forces the issue, then even despite their vast economic resources, I say, "Bring it!"
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OpenSolaris R.I.P.: The Day is Finally Here.
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
This is a real thing. This is not hype or idle rambling. OpenSolaris is, as of Friday the 13th of August, 2010, dead. Read the full skinny in the leaked internal email to Solaris Engineering. Here is the short version: OpenSolaris is dead. No more real-time/nightly code pushes. OpenSolaris 2010.05 will not happen, nor will any in the future. Solaris 11 Express will be the new "developer" release which will be available through OTN. Solaris will remain open source, but code will only be released after the product ships, not before. Now, lets go bit by bit. Today we are announcing a set of decisions regarding the path to Solaris 11, and answering key pending questions on open source, open development, software and binary licenses, and how developers and early adopters will be able to use Solaris 11 technology before its release in 2011. So, Solaris 11 is the new hotness and the "community" is reduced to "early adopters". Solaris must stand alone as a best-of-breed technology for Oracle’s enterprise customers. We want all of them to think “If this has to work, then it runs on Solaris.” That’s the Solaris brand. That is where our scalability to more than a few sockets of CPU and gigabytes of DRAM matters. This goes on for a while, but the message is clear. Solaris needs to not simply be another UNIX OS... it needs to be, as it was in the 90's, the enterprise platform of choice. We will continue to grow a vibrant developer and system administrator community for Solaris. Delivery of binary releases, delivery of APIs in source or binary form, delivery of open source code, delivery of technical documentation, and engineering of upstream contributions to common industry technologies (such as Apache, Perl, OFED, and many, many others) will be part of that activity. But we will also make specific decisions about why and when we do those things, following two core principles: (1) We can’t do everything. The limiting factor is our engineering bandwidth measured in people and time. So we have to ensure our top priority is driving delivery of the #1 Enterprise Operating System, Solaris 11, to grow our systems business; and (2) We want the adoption of our technology and intellectual property to accelerate our overall goals, yet not permit competitors to derive business advantage (or FUD) from our innovations before we do. This, really, isn't so bad. But again, no community, just end-users. A return to focus isn't a bad thing. We will continue to use the CDDL license statement in nearly all Solaris source code files. We will not remove the CDDL from any files in Solaris to which it already applies, and new source code files that are created will follow the current policy regarding applying the CDDL (simply, that usr/src files will have the CDDL, and the very small minority of files in usr/closed might not have it). Ok, so existing code will not be closed. So, no drastic change. We will distribute updates to approved CDDL or other open source- licensed code following full releases of our enterprise Solaris operating system. In this manner, new technology innovations will show up in our releases before anywhere else. We will no longer distribute source code for the entirety of the Solaris operating system in real-time while it is developed, on a nightly basis. So here is the killer... what I've been afraid of. No more nightly code. The upshot is that the code will still be available following releases to assist with DTracing, debugging, etc, but you won't get real-time updates. The biggest downside is that you can't see bug-fixes as they are put-back, and obviously anyone developing on Solaris is always playing catch up. It says "full release", so I can't expect that code will ship with each Express release. Maybe it will, I hope so. It goes on to say that "technology partners" (such as Intel) will have full source access via OTN. We will encourage and listen to any and all license requests for Solaris technology, either in part or in whole. All such requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, but we believe there are many complementary areas where new partnership opportunities exist to expand use of our IP. This is a sticky place. Code is shipped CDDL post-release, however they want to establish partnership opportunities. Clearly they are trying to ensure any businesses which rely upon Nevada will not escape from the partner programs and thus revenue opportunities for Oracle. We will deliver technical design information, in the form of documentation, design documents, and source code descriptions, through our OTN presence for Solaris. We will no longer post advance technical descriptions of every single ARC case by default, indicating what technical innovations might be present in future Solaris releases. We can at any time make a specific decision to post advance technical information for any project, when it serves a particular useful need to do so. Flush... there goes ARC. So the external view into Solaris development is now closing. We now only see what they wish us to see. We will have a Solaris 11 binary distribution, called Solaris 11 Express, that will have a free developer RTU license, and an optional support plan. Solaris 11 Express will debut by the end of this calendar year, and we will issue updates to it, leading to the full release of Solaris 11 in 2011. So, back to the old days. All of Oracle’s efforts on binary distributions of Solaris technology will be focused on Solaris 11. We will not release any other binary distributions, such as nightly or bi-weekly builds of Solaris binaries, or an OpenSolaris 2010.05 or later distribution. We will determine a simple, cost-effective means of getting enterprise users of prior OpenSolaris binary releases to migrate to S11 Express. There is the axe on OpenSolaris, present and future. The distro isn't coming. No nightly. No BFU's. We will have a Solaris 11 Platinum Customer Program, including direct engineering involvement and feedback, for customers using our Solaris 11 technology. We will be asking all of you to participate in this endeavor, bringing with us the benefit of previous Sun Platinum programs, while utilizing the much larger megaphone that is available to us now as a combined company. And here we see again, its "back to the future" . Pay to play. The Verdict Frankly, I'm not surprised by any of this. Saddened, certainly, but not shocked. The sleigh ride is officially over. As far as the community and governance is concerned, the OGB played right into Oracle hand. It might as well have been engineered this way. On Monday, the 16th, the OGB will disband and default on the charter. Great work guys! Thanks for truly representing the needs and desires of Ora...I mean, the community. As a governance, OpenSolaris has been a non-stop, end to end failure. Hands down. At every turn, it failed. As an open source project, it was luke warm at best. What I will miss is having full access to Solaris Engineering. What's happening, where we're going. That was amazing. An all access pass. I will truly miss that. The plus side is, that for all the ups-and-downs, the code is out there. They can't take that back. And we have reasonable assurances that it will stay out there following "full releases". That's not ideal, but its something. Something very valuable. As for me... Illumos will now carry the torch, and I'll participate in that with all the more gusto. This blog existed prior to OpenSolaris and it will continue to be a Solaris blog after. Solaris is the best platform on earth, it continues to be, in any given form. 2010-08-13T20:26:00Z
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OpenSolaris is Dead.
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
What follows is an email sent internally to Oracle Solaris Engineers which describes Oracle's true intentions toward the OpenSolaris project and the future of Oracle Solaris.This concludes over four years that I (and many other external contributors) have worked on the OpenSolaris project. This is a terrible sendoff for countless hours of work - for quality software which will now ship as an Oracle product that we (the original authors) can no longer obtain on an unrestricted basis.I can only maintain that the software we worked on was for the betterment of all, not for any one company's bottom line. This is truly a perversion of the open source spirit.Solaris Engineering,Today we are announcing a set of decisions regarding the path toSolaris 11, and answering key pending questions on open source, opendevelopment, software and binary licenses, and how developers andearly adopters will be able to use Solaris 11 technology before itsrelease in 2011.As you all know, the term “OpenSolaris” has been used colloquially torefer to any or all of a collection of source code, a developmentmodel, a web site, a logo, a binary release, a source license, acommunity, and many other related things. So it’s taken a while to goover each issue from an organizational and business perspective, andalign on the correct next step. Therefore, please take the time toread all of the detail here carefully. We’ll discuss our strategyfirst, and then the decisions and changes to our policies andprocesses that implement that strategy.Solaris Strategy----------------------Solaris is the #1 Enterprise Operating System. We have the leadingshare of business applications on Solaris today, including both SPARCand x64. We have more than twice the application base of AIX and HP-UX combined. We have a brand that stands for innovation, quality,security, and trust, built on our 20-year investment in Solarisoperating system engineering.From a business perspective, the purpose of our investment in Solarisengineering is to drive our overall server business, including bothSPARC and x64, and to drive business advantages resulting fromintegration of multiple components in the Oracle portfolio. Thisincludes combining our servers with our storage, our servers with ourswitches, Oracle applications with Solaris, and the effectiveness ofthe service experience resulting from these combinations. Alltogether, Solaris drives aggregate business measured in many billionsof dollars, with significant growth potential.We are increasing investment in Solaris, including hiring operatingsystem expertise from throughout the industry, as a sign of ourcommitment to these goals. Solaris is not something we outsource toothers, it is not the assembly of someone else’s technology, and it isnot a sustaining-only product. We expect the top operating systemsengineers in the industry, i.e. all of you, to be creating anddelivering innovations that continue to make Solaris unique,differentiated, and valuable to our customers, and a unique asset ofour business.Solaris must stand alone as a best-of-breed technology for Oracle’senterprise customers. We want all of them to think “If this has towork, then it runs on Solaris.” That’s the Solaris brand. That iswhere our scalability to more than a few sockets of CPU and gigabytesof DRAM matters. That is why we reliably deliver millions of IOPS ofstorage, networking, and Infiniband. That is why we have uniqueproperties around file and data management, security and namespaceisolation, fault management, and observability. And we also want ourcustomers to know that Solaris is and continues to be a source of newideas and new technologies-- ones that simplify their business andoptimize their applications. That’s what made Solaris 10 the mostinnovative operating system release ever. And that is the same focusthat will drive a new set of innovations in Solaris 11.For Solaris to stand alone as the best-of-breed operating system inOracle’s complete and open portfolio, it must run well on other serverhardware and execute everyone’s applications, while delivering uniqueoptimizations for our hardware and our applications. That is thecentral value proposition of Oracle’s complete, open, and integratedstrategy. And these are complementary and not contradictory goalsthat we will achieve through proper design and engineering.The growth opportunity for Solaris has never been greater. As oneexample, Solaris is used by about 40% of Oracle’s enterprisecustomers, which means we have a 60% growth opportunity in our topcustomers alone. In absolute numbers, there are 130,000 Oraclecustomers in North America alone who don’t use our servers and storageyet, and a global customer base of 350,000 (the prior Sun base was~35,000). That’s a huge opportunity we can go attack as a combinedcompany that will increase Solaris adoption and the overall Hardwareserver revenue. Our success will also increase the amount of effortISVs exert optimizing their applications for Solaris.We will continue to grow a vibrant developer and system administratorcommunity for Solaris. Delivery of binary releases, delivery of APIsin source or binary form, delivery of open source code, delivery oftechnical documentation, and engineering of upstream contributions tocommon industry technologies (such as Apache, Perl, OFED, and many,many others) will be part of that activity. But we will also makespecific decisions about why and when we do those things, followingtwo core principles: (1) We can’t do everything. The limiting factoris our engineering bandwidth measured in people and time. So we haveto ensure our top priority is driving delivery of the #1 EnterpriseOperating System, Solaris 11, to grow our systems business; and (2) Wewant the adoption of our technology and intellectual property toaccelerate our overall goals, yet not permit competitors to derivebusiness advantage (or FUD) from our innovations before we do.We are using our investment in core Solaris innovation and engineeringto drive multiple businesses, through multiple product lines. Thisalready includes our Solaris operating system for Enterprise, and ourZFS Storage product line, and will soon include other Oracleproducts. This strategy is all about creating more value from a setof common software investments: it makes everything you do morevaluable and used by more people worldwide. It also means you as anindividual engineer or manager have an even greater responsibility tounderstand the broader business and technical contexts in which yourengineering is deployed.Solaris Decisions------------------------We will continue to use the CDDL license statement in nearly allSolaris source code files. We will not remove the CDDL from any filesin Solaris to which it already applies, and new source code files thatare created will follow the current policy regarding applying the CDDL(simply, that usr/src files will have the CDDL, and the very smallminority of files in usr/closed might not have it). Use of other openlicenses in non-ON consolidations (e.g. GPL in the Desktop area) willalso continue. As before, requests to change the license associatedwith source code are case-by-case decisions.We will distribute updates to approved CDDL or other open source-licensed code following full releases of our enterprise Solarisoperating system. In this manner, new technology innovations willshow up in our releases before anywhere else. We will no longerdistribute source code for the entirety of the Solaris operatingsystem in real-time while it is developed, on a nightly basis.Anyone who is consuming Solaris code using the CDDL, whether in piecesor as a part of the OpenSolaris source distribution or a derivativethereof, would therefore be able to consume any updates we release atthat time, under the terms of the CDDL, LGPL, or whatever licenseapplies.We will have a technology partner program to permit our industrypartners full access to the in-development Solaris source code throughthe Oracle Technology Network (OTN). This will include both earlyaccess to code and binaries, as well as contributions to us where thatis appropriate. All such partnerships will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, but certainly our core, existing technology partnerships,such as the one with Intel, are examples of valued participation.We will encourage and listen to any and all license requests forSolaris technology, either in part or in whole. All such requestswill be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, but we believe there aremany complementary areas where new partnership opportunities exist toexpand use of our IP.We will continue active open development, including upstreamcontributions, in specific areas that accelerate our overall Solarisgoals. Examples include our activities around Gnome and X11, IPSpackaging, and our work to optimize ecosystems like Apache, OpenSSL,and Perl on Solaris.We will deliver technical design information, in the form ofdocumentation, design documents, and source code descriptions, throughour OTN presence for Solaris. We will no longer post advancetechnical descriptions of every single ARC case by default, indicatingwhat technical innovations might be present in future Solarisreleases. We can at any time make a specific decision to post advancetechnical information for any project, when it serves a particularuseful need to do so.We will have a Solaris 11 binary distribution, called Solaris 11Express, that will have a free developer RTU license, and an optionalsupport plan. Solaris 11 Express will debut by the end of thiscalendar year, and we will issue updates to it, leading to the fullrelease of Solaris 11 in 2011.All of Oracle’s efforts on binary distributions of Solaris technologywill be focused on Solaris 11. We will not release any other binarydistributions, such as nightly or bi-weekly builds of Solarisbinaries, or an OpenSolaris 2010.05 or later distribution. We willdetermine a simple, cost-effective means of getting enterprise usersof prior OpenSolaris binary releases to migrate to S11 Express.We will have a Solaris 11 Platinum Customer Program, including directengineering involvement and feedback, for customers using our Solaris11 technology. We will be asking all of you to participate in thisendeavor, bringing with us the benefit of previous Sun Platinumprograms, while utilizing the much larger megaphone that is availableto us now as a combined company.We look forward to everyone’s continued work on Solaris 11. Our goalis simply to make it the best and most important release of Solarisever.-Mike Shapiro, Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes 2010-08-13T15:07:00Z Steven Stallion noreply@blogger.com
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Farewell to Bryan Cantrill
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
I’ve been expecting this automated mail for a while now, but it was disheartening nonetheless: List: dtrace-discuss Member: bryan.cantrill@eng.sun.com Action: Subscription disabled. Reason: Excessive or fatal bounces. As one of the moderators of the DTrace discussion list, I see people subscribe and unsubscribe. Bryan has, of course, left Oracle and joined Joyent to be their [...]
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Oracle Finally Unveils the SPARC & Solaris Roadmap
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
John Fowler delvers an Oracle Systems Strategy Update webcast. Better late than never. There weren't any surprises. The key take-aways I think are: Roadmap for SPARC and Solaris out to 2015. SPARC will deliver "2x plus performance improvement every 2 years" Ultimate devotion to SPARC platform. 2 SPARC server lines: T-Series for lots of threads, M-Series for lots of sockets. "Niagara"/"UltraSPARC" branding isn't present at all... its all just "SPARC". Solaris 11 is coming in last 2011 with a beta/preview coming to "enterprise customers" soon The presentation really boiled down to "technology will move fast in the next 5 years, Solaris and SPARC rule." Clearly Oracle has a plan and will execute strongly. Maybe I have Sun-Purple colored glasses on, but it really felt like this lacked the kind of technical grit we were used to. There is no new exciting technology being introduced, no great innovation to look forward to, just steady incremental improvements in the technology. Feels a bit like HP really. Solaris 11 was inevitable. You can't introduce IPS to Solaris 10, it breaks too much, so Solaris 11 has to happen, and will bring with it all the Nevada goodness. It looks like following its release we'll be seeing annual updates that will focus primarily on scalability (to optimize for expanding hardware capabilities) through 2015. So, the good news is that finally have a roadmap and we know Solaris 11 is coming. The bad news is that OpenSolaris wasn't mentioned at all. That was expected though. As soon as Oracle took over in January the word was quickly spread that "OpenSolaris" is a four-letter word. So, anti-climatic, but glad we finally got a glimpse into the future. All eyes now turn to that first Solaris 11 preview to come "soon". 2010-08-12T07:40:00Z
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The node.js demographic
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
I went to the node.js meetup last night in Palo Alto, and it was an interesting affair on several levels. First (and least surprisingly), it was packed, with the Sencha folks joking that they would need to move to a bigger space just to be able to host the event. Second, the technical content itself [...]
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Illumos Shines New Light
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
As many of you have no doubt heard, this week Illumos opened its doors to the world. What is Illumos? A change to put "OpenSolaris" back on track. When this slay ride started, "OpenSolaris" wasn't a distribution, it was a community. It was users and developers and sysadmins gathering around a great operating systems code, now free to learn from, contribute to, and to innovate on. But that's not how it really went down... is it? Illumos isn't a fork. There is no such desire. We're simply moving the code out into the community, where it belongs, and leaving the corporate red tape behind. Garrett D'Amore, who has spearheaded this and will serve as our benevolent dictator for the time being, has already invited Oracle to participate. I really hope that they do. We have here now a way for the community to contribute better than ever before, and a way to cross-pollinate with the Oracle gate in an orderly way. By keeping them in sync we can share between the two as we wish. Whats best of all is that while Garrett is a Nexenta employee, this is not a Nexenta owned project. Nexenta will use it, as will Joyent, as will Belenix, as will anyone else who desires. While I wish we didn't need to setup an external community repository, all other alternatives have been exhausted. This isn't really even the first time this has happened. At Genunix there was for some time SVN Repostitories maintained... they simply didn't get much love. Whats different this time is that there are an increasing number of developers that depend on this codebase which can not be at the continous mercy of Oracle. We can find security in having our own community gate. I personally applaud Garrett for his decisive leadership and Nexenta for allowing him to pursue this. The future is looking a lot more bright and I really hope that Oracle will join in and we can all work hard to innovate on this amazing platform, together. 2010-08-07T01:20:00Z
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In Athens!
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
As noted previously, I took a job working with Coraid, Inc. back in May. My family and I have finally completed relocating down to beautiful Athens, GA. We are all very excited to be part of the culture here and are looking forward to many happy years. 2010-08-05T16:10:00Z Steven Stallion noreply@blogger.com
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Getting into Illumos
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
Now that Illumos has launched, it’s time to get involved. Register for the website and participate in the forums and don’t forget to subscribe to the mailing lists.
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Illumos Announcement
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
Today we announced the Illumos Project. I think the call I gave on it had a lot more information than I want to write here, and there are now quite a number of blog postings from other more recognizable names than my own. I'm thrilled by the excitement here!
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OpenSolaris and the power to fork
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
Back when Solaris was initially open sourced, there was a conscious effort to be mindful of the experiences of other projects. In particular — even though it was somewhat of a paradox — it was understood how important it was for the community to have the power to fork the operating system. As I wrote [...]
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Alternate feeds for Illumos announcement
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
cut&paste: Unofficial audio streams It is recommended you connect from a Windows or MacOS as gotomeeting is known to work well over these platforms. If you cannot for some reason, Matt Lewandowsky is setting up an audio broadcast stream at http://www.greenviolet.net/articles/illumos-announcement-stream.gv
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Illumos
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
Illumos will be announced publicly at a conference call on Aug 3, 1PM, EDT (That’s 3am, Australian Eastern Standard Time). To join this call, head over to the below link, and register your mail ID for the call information. https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/785845675 You can join in two ways: Call in via phone Call via Voip (mic/speakers) The access details will be sent in [...]
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OpenSolaris keyboard configuration moved to SMF
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
After updating OpenSolaris to b145, I discovered my keyboard layout (ABNT2) wasn’t working. My first reaction was to inspect /etc/default/kbd but that file doesn’t exist anymore. Searching through the onnv-gate repository for ‘kbd’, I found the following changeset: 6944480 move keyboard configuration from /etc/default/kbd to SMF The SMF service where this configuration resides now is [...]
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Illumos
Planet Illumos - 49 min 35 sec ago
A number of the community leaders from the OpenSolaris community have been working quietly together on a new effort called Illumos, and we're just about ready to fully disclose our work to, and invite the general participation of, the general public.We believe that everyone who is interested in OpenSolaris should be interested in what we have to say, and so we invite the entire OpenSolaris community to join us for a presentation on at 1PM EDT on August 3, 2010.You can find out the full details of how to listen in to our conference, or attend in person (we will be announcing from New York City) by visiting http://www.illumos.org/announce (The final details shall be posted there not later than 1PM EDT Aug 1, 2010.)We look forward to seeing you there! - Garrett D'Amore & the rest of the Illumos Cast
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