Category Archives: OpenSolaris

OpenIndiana

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Ben Lavery

Back last year Oracle canned the OpenSolaris project.  A group of developers forked the source and created the Illumos project which aimed to maintain the base of OpenSolaris as well as develop open code to replace the closed binaries that … Continue reading →

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Goodbye OpenSolaris

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Ben Lavery

Well, it looks like Oracle has pulled OpenSolaris.  Hopefully the Illumos project will continue and make some sort of replacement for the loss. Over the past week or so I’ve been thinking about jumping to FreeBSD, the project has ZFS … Continue reading →

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Dissertation is over…

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Ben Lavery

I meant to blog about this ages ago!  Better late than never I suppose… Back in April (April 22nd to be precise) I handed in two copies of my 72 page document which outlines everything about my project.  I wanted … Continue reading →

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Whence and Whenceman

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Ben Lavery

On the UNIX command line, the `which` command is great, it tells you where a command is in the system.  However, if your system has two versions of the `ls` command, it will only tell you which `ls` command you … Continue reading →

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Opensolaris Live USB Creator

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Just been alerted to this: clicky Though if you don’t have access to a Windows box, but do already have access (or know someone with access) to an OpenSolaris box, then this method works too.

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rm -rf tragedy

Posted on March 29, 2009 by Ben Lavery

It happened a couple of weeks ago now.  I plugged in my external hard drive “POCKET” and OpenSolaris mounted it under /media/POCKET.  I was going to copy my films and TV series over to POCKET as I was travelling up … Continue reading →

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Beleg-Iâ gets an upgrade

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Ben Lavery

It happened a couple of weeks ago now, I’ve upgraded the storage in beleg-iâ.  It now has 4x 500GB disks! I have them in two mirrors, one for the boot disk and one for data.

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DynDNS and my server

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Ben Lavery

I meant to blog this ages ago, and have only just remembered about it! I wanted a way for me to access my server when I wasn’t on the local network.  A friend pointed me to DynDNS, this will give … Continue reading →

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My new IBM Thinkpad X32 and wireless

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Today I took delivery of the four year old IBM Thinkpad X32.  With it’s 1.8GHz Pentium M, 1GB of RAM and it’s “massive” 40gb HDD I thought it was an excellent machine to use as a portable OpenSolaris machine.

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Create an OpenSolaris 2008.11 LiveUSB

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Ben Lavery

T’other day I won an IBM X32 on eBay (more on that tomorrow).  I want to install OpenSolaris on the laptop, but it doesn’t have an optical drive… I set about looking for a solution.  Unfortunatly, Googling around didn’t throw … Continue reading →

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