Robert Milkowski's blog

The just released Solaris 11.3 SRU31 has an updated pam_list module which adds support for '*' and comments. The '*' wildcar...

How to get gcc-7 on Solaris 11.4? root@solaris:~# pkg install gcc-7 Packages to install: 14 Mediators to change: 1...

So what do you do if you want to program in golang on Solaris 11.4? You just type: pkg install golang

As finally publicly presented at Solaris Tech Day in Vienna couple of weeks ago, ZFS in Solaris 11.4 will have the long awaited on-line devi...

Looks like DTrace is under GPL now. It would be really great to see it on Linux.

Ok, the title should really be Solaris 11.4 Public Beta. However Solaris 11.4 is essentially what Solaris 12 was supposed to be. See the ann...

Very interesting presentation on how ZIL works and on latest improvements in OpenZFS, presented during OpenZFS Developer Summit 2017.

Is general purpos server OS dead in the next few years? It definitely seems that way.

Sudo on Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 allow to specify a privilege set a command will run with. This is very powerful if you want to be more spe...

Alan Coopersmith blogged about migration of Open Source content available in Solaris from java.net to GitHub. This is definitely an improve...

Although The Register and others were suggesting Solaris 11 might be affected, it seems not to be the case - according to Oracle Solaris 11 ...

A friend of mine blogged about Eoraptor, Unaysaurus and T-Rex. A fun read about FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux and others.

Solaris 11 adopts Continuous Delivery model , which means instead of Solaris 12 there will be Solaris 11.4, 11.5, etc. This is generally a g...

When building your own AI images with distro_const it is useful sometimes to add a custom script to modify the resulting image. This is eas...