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Opensolaris user group meeting in Santa Clara

Last night I went to the opensolaris user group meeting in santa clara. David Comay gave a talk on zones. There was a good turnout. Many from outside Sun, but also a lot of big names from within Sun. You never know who you will end up sitting to at these things.

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El reg on Solaris

The Rgister has a very interesting article on Solarisx86 today Sun’s Linux killer shows promise The article is a very good read and points to some things that need working on however in one paragraph the author discussed Solaris Patching, and I’d like to elaborate on that a bit. This is an area where Sun’s

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Replacing sudo

Recently I was installing a machine for someone. One of their requirements was to have sudo installed. Sudo, allows a given set of users to run a given set of commands as root. What this user wanted to use sudo for was so that they could use any command as root except halt, shutdown,reboot &

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Finally I have a useable solaris laptop

Some time ago I posted about what I had needed to do to get Solaris installed on my laptop. Well, the install went fine, but rather what extra bits I needed. Some folks in Sun have been working on a driver for the centrino wireless adapter, but up to now I’ve never managed to get

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