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UNIX and C creator Dennis Ritchie reportedly has died

stexas — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:10:27 +0000

A truly great software engineer and genius! He will be missed. Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie all within a weeks span. What a loss!

NYT Ponders the Future of Solaris In a Linux/Windows World

stexas — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:24:53 +0000

JerkBoB links to a story at the New York Times about the future prospects of Sun’s Solaris, excerpting: “Linux is enjoying growth, with a contingent of devotees too large to be called a cult following at this point. Solaris, meanwhile, has thrived as a longstanding, primary Unix platform geared to enterprises. But with Linux the [...]

Solaris gets another Common Criteria certification

stexas — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:44:50 +0000

Sun has obtained Common Criteria EAL4+ certification for its Solaris 10 operating system. [From Solaris gets another Common Criteria certification]

Solving Common Administration Problems with ZFS

stexas — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:58:16 +0000

One of the most interesting features in Solaris is its ZFS filesystem. Read on for a quick guide to ZFS administration. [From Solving Common Administration Problems with ZFS]

Unixfication II

stexas — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:20:57 +0000

Can the Linux community get over its “not invented here” ideology which has often hindered its ability to adopt technological improvements from outside sources? I keep saying myself, I hope so. But recent events have shown me that we have a long way to go until we become a culture of inclusion and not of [...]

Sun touts big plans for OpenSolaris as first release nears

stexas — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:49:26 +0000

Sun platform strategist Ian Murdock presented OpenSolaris at LugRadio Live. The platform looks promising, but serious advantages of adopting it on the desktop remain elusive. Read More… [From Sun touts big plans for OpenSolaris as first release nears]

Samba shakes hands with Microsoft

stexas — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:56:51 +0000

No royalties to pay in interop deal? The Samba team has reached an agreement with Microsoft, with the software giant agreeing to disclose technical and legal information to the software libre project. Samba is by far the most widely-used software stack that allows non-Microsoft computer to talk to Windows machines, and use proprietary Microsoft network [...]

Mac OS X Leopard is Now Officially Unix

stexas — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:35:36 +0000

Mac OS X Leopard is now officially Unix, according to the Opengroup." I know everyone out there was really worried about this one. Welcome to the August news vacuum!

Report Warns Against Well-Meaning Net Censorship

stexas — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:19:41 +0000

Report Warns Against Well-Meaning Net Censorship:A report entitled 'Governing the Internet,' was issued Thursday by the 56-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The document, which highlights the increasing environment of internet 'policing' around the world, characterized the practice as 'a bitter reminder of the ease with which some regimes -- democracies and dictatorships alike -- seek to suppress speech that they disapprove of, dislike, or simply fear.' From the article: 'The OSCE report says Kazakhstan's efforts to rein in Internet journalism in the name of national security is reminiscent of Soviet-era "spy mania," and it says Georgian law contains numerous provisions curbing freedom of expression online. Web sites, blogs and personal pages all are subject to criminal as well as civil prosecution in Kazakhstan, and the country's information minister, Yermukhamet Yertysbayev, has vowed to purge Kazakh sites of "dirt" and "lies."

SSH Overview

stexas — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:03:52 +0000

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 weâ€™ll cover these features and much more."

Sun Says File Systems are Important Differentiator

stexas — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:41:34 +0000

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.

Sun’s new Streaming System

stexas — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:53:09 +0000

A peek at Sun's new Streaming System:80,000 simultaneous 4Mbps streams, or 160,000 2Mbps streams; the technology and implementation of Sun's Streaming System.Read More...

Sun Is Giving Away Solaris 10 DVDs

stexas — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:28:12 +0000

Sun Is Giving Away Solaris 10 DVDs:“For a limited time only, just like Ubuntu's ShipIt service, Sun Microsystems lets you order Solaris 10 absolutely free of charge. The operating system comes on a single DVD supporting both the x86 and SPARC versions. Also included is Sun Studio 11.”

ZFS Overview from Sun

stexas — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:18:47 +0000

ZFS Overview from Sun:Here’s a PDF overview of ZFS by Jeff Bonwick of Sun Microsystems. The 128-bit ZFS file system will apparently be used in Leopard to provide multi-disk data pools as well as to create data snapshots for backups. ZFS provides fast data access with lots of data integrity features. It’s a nice, easy-to-follow overview that’s well worth a look if you have any interesting in learning more about ZFS.

Securing NFS – Tunneling NFS over SSH

stexas — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 02:53:51 +0000

Securing NFS - Tunneling NFS over SSH (27 Sep 2006):The goal of this howto is building an NFS server that works on an SSH tunnel. This way all traffic between your hosts and the file server is encrypted and thus more secure. Normally you should enter a password every time you try to establish an SSH connection but since we could be mounting at bootup we will use ssh-keygen to create a keypair so we can login without entering a password. We will, however, limit that login session to executing just one command.