In Through The Out Door

Because you were probably just thinking that your choices on operating systems were feeling a little limited.

[From Sun Launches OpenSolaris on a Post-OS World]

OpenSolaris: Excellent OS but is the license holding it back?
[From OpenSolaris Just Wants to be Free]

A break-in can happen to any system administrator. Find out how to use Autopsy and Sleuthkit to hit the ground running on your first forensics project.

[From Introduction to Forensics]

In my experience, the open approach, promotes open discussion, open experimentation, open solutions, and rapid growth. If you were looking for a market where the concept of “give a little and get a lot” works, you have arrived. [From In Praise of Openness]

Isolating network traffic with IP instances:Cool new stuff coming.”To create an IP instance and assign it to a Solaris zone, you will first need to identify a spare physical NIC to dedicate to the zone (when Crossbow comes around, you will be able to allocate virtual NICs to zones, and these virtual NICs can reside on a physical NIC).

SSH Overview:Nice article about ssh.”SSH (secure shell) is a program enabling secure access to remote file systems. Not everyone is aware of other powerful SSH capabilities, such as passwordless login, automatic execution of commands on a remote system or even mounting a remote folder using SSH! In this article we’ll cover these features and much more.”

Sun Says File Systems are Important Differentiator:Sun Microsystems was originally known as a workstation vendor, and it became best known as a maker of servers and their associated Solaris Unix operating system…. Sun still believes that file systems matter, and its Zettabyte File System (ZFS) and the expanding role it could play in the IT industry are proof of this belief. Given the features inside ZFS, it comes as no surprise that Sun is excited to see other companies and open source projects pick it up. According to Jeff Bonwick, who is a co-creator of ZFS with Moore and the storage chief technology officer at Sun, the open source FreeBSD variant of BSD Unix already supports ZFS in its distro and the NetBSD is adding ZFS support through Google’s Summer of Code effort, whereby Google pays young nerds to do coding for a summer job. The future “Leopard” version of MacOS X Server also has ZFS support inside of its beta versions, but it remains to be seen if the file system will make it into the final release of Apple’s server operating system.

MP3’s Loss, Open Source’s Gain:A jury’s $1.52 billion judgment against Microsoft hangs a sudden, unexpected cloud over MP3. This could be an opportunity for open-source options. By Eliot Van Buskirk and Evan Hansen.