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http://openindiana.org/

Plug n Play seems strong, and no longer have the Solaris latency which I had seen in last 18 moths. Live CD boots perfectly in virtual machine. Can post msgs on Sammyboy.Com ;) It is enterprise class product that can be used in big network environments.
 
Pioneer said:
Still doesn't tell me if it is free?

All I see is this free: 10 GB of free disk space required

No point downloading if it wouldn't let me run unless I pay..
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If you are really interested then google for it. I don't use it. Just trying to help.
 
Thanks, Bro.

Just see look. Maybe I'll see if UncleYap comes by.
 
Pioneer said:
Thanks, Bro.

Just see look. Maybe I'll see if UncleYap comes by.
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When original Solaris was developed by Sun Mirco System it was a paid OS, and not cheap at all. But Sun was losing market shares. MS ate the bulk of the cake, Apple took almost all the rest.:p So Sun joined the Free movement like Linux, they let their Solaris become OpenSolaris which WAS FOC, and their Star Office also became Open Office FOC.

Recently Oracle bought Sun Micro System, and Oracle gets greedy.:(

They modified their terms and conditions for FOC uses of OpenSolaris & OpenOffice.

So the free software movement began to brunch out from OpenSolaris to Open Indiana which is the really free version of Oracle's Solaris. Also the LibreOffice is similarly brunched out of OpenOffice to be the really FOC version.

Meanwhile Opensolaris & OpenOffice are still quite FOC but now with some limitations in their terms and conditions, I don't bother to study what limitations they really are, I just switch to the real FOC versions LibreOffice.Org & OpenIndiana.org. (should be all small letters)

:)

All the main Linux distributions also switched from openoffice to libreoffice.org their source code bases are the same, but once they brunch out now, they will be developing independently from now onwards. That's the beautiful thing about open source, unlimited possibilities. There are already many brunches of openoffice - premier ofice / supreme office etc. All from the same origin - Sun's Star Office.

Once out in the open they will each snowball into their own. Each broken ball will become another new snowball.;)

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These are older charts upto only 2007. Now there are so many more. May be too complicated to chart already.
 
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Today the several main brunches are:

Ubuntu & cousins - kutuntu xubuntu .... a dozen of them

Redhat & cousins - Fedora core, RHEL, etc.

SuSe Linux now Novel's

Knoppix and children (many)

BSD - netbsd freebsd dragonfly.. etc

Darwin (free brunch from Apple soft)

Solaris (open solaris & open Idiana & illumos.org)

There are many more like Slackware Gento etc, also Linux-From-Scratch type. All in all there would be about 200 big & small projects that you can find. There are also hundreds of undisclosed (private brunches within universities and businesses including experimental & military)
 
i started using solaris in 1999. i created a webserver database using perl for cgi then. later on, i went on to take my dertification for solaris 8 admin. i thought that solaris will be a very popular os/server. to my dismay, the last i known was that they sold thmeselves out to oracle.
 
Uncle Yap, saw you boarding bus NR7 around 0330hrs from Plaza Singapure a few weeks back... then you alighted at a bus stop at Tanah Merah... Thought of saying Hi to you but the bus was packed...:)
 
zeddy said:
Uncle Yap, saw you boarding bus NR7 around 0330hrs from Plaza Singapure a few weeks back... then you alighted at a bus stop at Tanah Merah... Thought of saying Hi to you but the bus was packed...:)
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:)

Yeah I remember doing that, I think some opposition supporters etc went for a late dinner to celebrate the GE that night. ;)

I was dozing off in the NR7 bus I think, too much makan & beer :D. & was listening to MP3 from my phone.
 
krafty said:
i started using solaris in 1999. i created a webserver database using perl for cgi then. later on, i went on to take my dertification for solaris 8 admin. i thought that solaris will be a very popular os/server. to my dismay, the last i known was that they sold thmeselves out to oracle.
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mmmm... I installed several Solaris the last few years mainly for testings. They are damn robust but had some latency issues. That means it took time in their GUI to open up apps after clicking. But they seems to had solved it this time. They are rock solid and will not easily go down.

If used as MYSQL server, or Java server, Solaris is best and native. MYSQL is originally the Sun Microsystem's product, so is Java.

I love mysql but I hate Java especially the complied ones. I cursed when I had to install Tomcat in sever. :mad: gets me fed up every time. I like only open source.

You can switch to OpenIndiana. It is open source. I am going to use it as a virtual machine. I think those fellows doing HTML Java Kiosk Projects can consider it too, only lack flash.

Ah wrong! Correction:

Have flash already:

http://blogs.adobe.com/labs/archives/2008/09/flash_player_10_3.html

:)
 
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the latency that you experience may be due to the fact that solaris is made to run on sparc(motorola processor) hardware. intel solaris is never meant to be but to encourage end users to fiddle with the os. i ever install pstn interface(Brooktrout) on sparc machines and i used solaris on sparc boxes to configure E1 line, invoking x-windows to do it. as for database, i used radius then for authentication purpose. overall, what you do is very general, if you try doing application based on solaris, i think it will be challenging. my best encounter was administering a SUN E10K in a datacentre. those days i get high easily just by looking at sun systems...

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Good machine, and that is exactly what Sam Leong needed to host his MYSQL right inside. :P and we will never get that database error msg any more. I have no doubt that native Sun Solaris Servers will be best to host MYSQL which is also Sun's. Surely optimised. ;)
 
krafty said:
The world’s most super-designed data center – fit for a James Bond villain

http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/11/14...ned-data-center-fit-for-a-james-bond-villain/
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;) That's where they had wikiLEAK hosted I think.

The best way now is to host in a CLOUD. Not at a single place but it is somewhere between no-where and every-where. Float dynamically in the cyberspace and forever changing it's host.

Indestructible & unstoppable.

Imagine you have a logical RAID 50, striped 36 ways and protect each stripe by mirror and parity, and have hot spare and automatically regenerate. Each RAID element is on a different server in different country within a CLOUD. Very hard to bring your data down. Then you can dynamically re-assign and duplicate with redundancies. If you want to make it even more hardened you mirror and stripe few hundred ways, move them around. It is not so easy to destroy your data, like this. You don't need a fortress to host it.

The fortress may be strong. But if your enemy located your fiber and cut it... you are doomed also.

:eek:
 
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I know that face!

That's when we login as root and ran the bloody wrong scripts, face will be exactly like that when we realise mistake. KNN! Next second will be a loud slam on the desk and shout FUCK!

:(:D:*:

The last time it happened to me was last week when I was sleepy. I typed:

rm 10GB.data.tar.gz 10GB.data.tar.gz.bak

instead of:

cp 10GB.data.tar.gz 10GB.data.tar.gz.bak

I only realised when I checked my remaining space, after I tot I did a backup. I found that not only I have not used up more space after the previous command, my free space actually INCREASED. :eek:

So KNN! wiped out my tar-ball for a typo :(

My face looked like that when I saw my free space got so much EXTRA.

:D:p
 
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