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Viewing at Impossible Angles
The picture of the little screwdriver with the Allen wrench head to the right is bound to invoke a little nostalgia for those readers who were Sun customers in the late 80s. This tool was a very popular give-away: it was essential for installing and removing Multibus (you youngsters will have to look that up on Wikipedia…) cards in our systems.
Is Linear Tape File System (LTFS) Best For Transportable Storage?
Those of us in tape storage engineering take a lot of pride in what we do, but understand that tape is the right answer to a storage problem only some of the time. And, unfortunately for a storage medium with such a long history, it has built up a few preconceived notions that are no longer valid.
Overcoming Your Fear of Repositories
One of the best features of Oracle Solaris 11 is its software update model. As you have probably heard many times by now, the Image Packaging System (IPS) handles package dependencies automatically, so you no longer have to check them manually or create scripts that assemble the correct set of packages .
Cluster Fest
It's been a couple of months since we focused on Oracle Solaris Cluster. If you're a fan, we have some new content that will interest you. See below. (If you're new to Solaris Cluster, in particular how to use it in a virtual environment, see "Recent Technical Articles About Oracle Solaris Cluster," further down.)
Excuses, Excuses!
There are two kinds of sysadmin. One charges into the unknown, eager to try the latest-and-greatest, confident in his or her ability to fix whatever breaks. The other is cautious, dedicated to keeping the Enterprise running and probably aware that unplanned downtime can become one of those career-limiting events.
Is This How the Execs React to Your Recommendations?
Well then, do your homework next time!
The friendly folks on the Solaris team have made that a little easier. They have put together a list of resources to help you evaluate Oracle Solaris 11.
How to subscribe to the free Oracle Linux errata yum repositories
Now that updates and errata for Oracle Linux are available for free (both as in beer and freedom), here's a quick HOWTO on how to subscribe your Oracle Linux system to the newly added yum repositories on our public yum server, assuming that you just installed Oracle Linux from scratch, e.g.
