We’ve been using Opensolaris (and Solaris) more and more; the advantages in technical prowess outweigh the few advantages Linux has left in ease of use. One thing we’ve been frustrated with a couple of times is the apparent inability to to create custom slice layouts on root disks during installation. We’re building a 16 drive, […]
I’ve been tasked with merging one subversion repository into another. The source repository is 35GB and the destination about 2GB. The source repository is bloated by the ritual inclusion of large directories of binary files that were wiped and re-added continually as well as branched and tagged hundreds of times. The goal is to eliminate […]
I’ve been eagerly waiting an upgrade from OpenSolaris 2008.11 that would provide working WPA2 PSK for my laptop, as my laptop is the easiest system for operating system experimentation. I’ve heard stories of success with snv_107, so I decided to give it a shot. Somehow the upgrade from snv_101b to snv_107 was quirky – Xorg […]