Archive for May, 2008

Removing Gnome on OpenSolaris

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

The LiveCD does not allow the user to customize what packages to install, similar to what Solaris 10 and other server operating system do. There is no documented way of removing large package sets like Gnome and Xorg. For a headless server setup you can remove unnecessary desktop applications with the following command:
pkg uninstall -vr [...]

Removing Gnome on OpenSolaris

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

The LiveCD does not allow the user to customize what packages to install, similar to what Solaris 10 and other server operating system do.

There is no documented way of removing large package sets like Gnome and Xorg. For a headless server setup you can remove unnecessary desktop applications with the following command:
pkg uninstall -vr `pkg [...]

OpenSolaris 2008.05

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

The first official binary distribution based on OpenSolaris was released yesterday! It comes on a single LiveCD that lets you check out all the much talked about features before installing. Some of the highlights are the new IPS package manager, DTrace, Service Management Facility, XEN, and the new ZFS filesystem!
I have been looking forward to [...]

OpenSolaris 2008.05

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

The first official binary distribution based on OpenSolaris was released yesterday! It comes on a single LiveCD that lets you check out all the much talked about features before installing. Some of the highlights are the new IPS package manager, DTrace, Service Management Facility, XEN, and the new ZFS filesystem!
I have been looking forward to [...]

P1010247

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Vitaliy Gladkevitch posted a photo:

P1010247

Technology Books and Home Users

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

In the past few months I have started making the transition from reading on my computer monitor to physical books, simply because my eyes can not handle the strain of focusing on the monitor for hours. After reading a good deal of computer related books I have started to realize an annoying pattern, authors and [...]

Technology Books and Home Users

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

In the past few months I have started making the transition from reading on my computer monitor to physical books, simply because my eyes can not handle the strain of focusing on the monitor for hours. After reading a good deal of computer related books I have started to realize an annoying pattern, authors and [...]