It’s disappointing how sometimes a “reputable” product, something that you have faith in, lets you down. Like Solaris. I spent an enormous amount of time, together with a colleague, troubleshooting a variety of interoperability and performance problems with a Sun Thumper running Solaris 10. Really very silly things like a SMF script that calls an undefined shell function. This is the script that starts up the iSCSI target service. It calls a function that is not defined. The service cannot…
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Why OpenSolaris
Ian Murdock came by in the past week to talk about his open source journey from Linux at Purdue University, founding the Debian project, and now working as the Chief OS Platform Strategist for Sun Microsystems. I suppose he couldn’t help sounding out some of the advantages of Solaris. Things like DTrace, Containers and ZFS are neat. There was a passing comment about how OpenSolaris and the Indiana project was going to make Solaris more friendly. Such as having a…