opensolaris-yet-again-notes, #2: tools and packages
Faster than I thought… Fixed my broken X server pretty quickly, and by the way learning how to boot up OpenSolaris into maintaineance / single-user mode (as this…
24. Juli 2009
opensolaris-yet-again-notes, #1: post installation impressions
Following an extensive discussion on osnews.com evolving around the question whether Suns OpenSolaris distribution is just a bad GNU/Linux distribution, I once again did a chance downloading a…
23. Juli 2009
OpenSolaris notebooks… finally?
A few months ago we saw the news that Toshiba and Sun were about to team up on bringing the OpenSolaris operating system pre-installed to Toshiba notebooks. And,…
2. April 2009
OpenSolaris: 2008.11 unveiled?
Though it seems an official announcement is still missing, opensolaris.org as well as genunix.org report that OpenSolaris 2008.11 finally has been made publicly available. Release notes are available…
2. Dezember 2008
OpenSolaris 2008.11: some light, some shadows
Once again, I’ve been through an enjoyable week of test-driving OpenSolaris 2008.11 pre-release in a production environment on my developer notebook. And, once again, now I am kind…
21. November 2008
XFCE 4.4.3 on OpenSolaris 2008.11 pre-release
Playing with OpenSolaris once again, I surely also wanted to make use of my favorite desktop environment XFCE on that platform. Unfortunately, so far there are no up-to-date…
6. November 2008