20 years ago today, I joined in the #OpenSolaris opening day blog circus by posting why the X11 & Desktop sources were not yet posted to opensolaris.org but would be coming later:
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/opening-day
and about what new desktop features were in the first #Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) release that went out at the same time:
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/solaris-express-changes-for-desktop-users
Opening Day for #OpenSolaris was 20 years ago today, June 14, 2005.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050615185510/http://www.opensolaris.org/os/
https://web.archive.org/web/20050616004614/http://www.opensolaris.org/os/blogs/
So with #Oracle putting out a new version of #Solaris plebs are allowed to touch I felt like unretiring a old PC and install #OpenIndiana #illumos on it. Wait you thought I would touch something the devil him self ruined? No Oracle axing #OpenSolaris was one of the reasons why I hate that company.
Anyway that was rough like seriously, first off finding parts that are supported, also their latest UI image is broken and I thought for hours the hardware was to blame, UEFI is supported but crashes the kernel on all my machines.
Had to use an older image from 10.24 to get it installed and then it took the whole day to update the system, USB stick mounting throws errors but other then that works ok now.
It's really such a shame opensolaris was my daily driver for nearly a year back then, was one of the reason I got comfy with compiling my own stuff again at that time. Still have a soft spot for that OS, would be cool if they could get more manpower again.
#tribblix got some cool zone management with #zap
Just playing around with #bhyve and #netbsd
NetBSD feels fast.
one line to deploy a zone #1337hax0r
Introducing a ddu-alike feature for Tribblix
https://ptribble.blogspot.com/2025/02/introducing-ddu-alike-for-tribblix.html
Tomorrow the #opensource #FOSDEM #conference starts in #Brussels, #Belgium!
Let’s see if we can attract more people to #BSD based systems by providing free #vps running #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD or even #illumos as an #opensolaris solution.
@gyptazy will be onsite to provide you more information or even stickers ;)
We just added a free #loadbalancing service to #BoxyBSD!
This new feature got added by @gyptazy in addition to the newly introduced #NAT64 gateways to make your life easier and is currently tested with a few users! This provides you the ability to make your website also reachable by #IPv4 even your box is only running on #IPv6. This feature can be managed from your self-service portal and simply requires you to add a DNS name that should be balanced and to point the DNS A record to a given IPv4.
Making the legacy internet life easier, we hope for a higher #BSD adaption where people might be more motivated to try #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD or even #opensolaris with #illumos.
2025 is starting great - and I took all opportunities!
Like probably all personal playgrounds, I started small with many technically working but not ideal solutions. Ignoring several RFC's, standards etc,.
This also applies to my @BoxyBSD project that provides free VPS (#BSD focussed, such like #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD but also #illumos / #opensolaris etc.,) boxes for the #opensource community and beginners to provide them a place for learning and education.
I decreased (yeah decreased) the amount of overall systems. Instead, we now have bigger sized systems which makes the overall management easier and also improved the whole networking stack. Also some other benefits came along with this ;) I'm really happy to see what 2025 brings up - and there're several great things to be announced soon :)
I just launched the new @BoxyBSD self-service portal where you can finally manage your BSD based box instances on your own - and I really love this minimalistic and terminal alike design.
The installer currently supports #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #DragonflyBSD, #MidnightBSD and also #Illumos (#OpenSolaris).
Have fun and #RUNBSD!
Hey #OpenIndiana team,
I'm running with https://boxybsd.com (@BoxyBSD) a hosting platform, offering free VPS for people in the educational sector that want to explore and learn #BSD & #Solaris based operating systems. However, we have 2024 and pkg.openindiana.org is still IPv4 only - any thoughts about running dual-stack?
In the meantime my workaround for the users:
https://pkg-openindiana.mirror.gyptazy.com
Thanks!
The mdb debugger and dtrace framework rely on CTF info in ELF binaries for information about variable types and structures. While the commands needed to put this information into binaries have been available since #OpenSolaris, they weren't officially documented and supported until now. #OracleSolaris 11.4.75 officially delivers ctfconvert, ctfdump, & ctfmerge in /usr/bin with public man pages.
I doubt it. Now I'm installing #OpenIndiana (i.e. #OpenSolaris / #illumos) because it seems like it might be easy to get #CDE working on it and I'm just curious. Already failed with OpenBSD and not going to clutter up my Arch system with this after I just cleaned.
@nielsk oh wow, just read that #OpenIndiana is the successor to #OpenSolaris. Very interested to benchmark and audit this #OS to compare with the other #Linux systems. :)
Hey #openindiana #illumos #opensolaris maintainers!
#borgbackup 1.2.x runs on your favourite OS, but as we unbundled some 3rd party code, borg 1.4.x would not work because there is no xxhash package within the OS distribution.
I checked for OpenIndiana, not sure about the others.
Also, please make sure pkg-config finds xxhash (and also OpenSSL).
Quiz: Jak dobrze znasz system operacyjny Solaris oraz jego forki https://linuxiarze.pl/quiz-dystrybucje-solaris-2024/ #quiz #solaris #opensolaris #illumos #unix
@lorddimwit One of the challenges with buying “rights” is they may not have right to distribute source. They may only have rights to distribute binary assets for some components. @ptribble was just going through #illumos earlier this year identifying proprietary components and whether we could remove them yet. Almost twenty years after the #OpenSolaris project released source.
@ball #OpenSolaris had up to the SPARC T3 before it ended, and #illumos inherited that, but has dropped it recently. A few distros, including #tribblix & #OpenIndiana are keeping the SPARC support alive on the side.
Goodness, the #Unix 32/V, #BSD 4 & #OpenSolaris versions of ps.c are so completely different. It’s clear there’s been a complete rewrite for Solaris, but who knows what happened between Ancient Unix and System V R4. I could probably get tapes, then again I might not be able to.
It’s also clear how different these systems’ features and kernel representation of processes were.
UNIX 32/V: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Bell-32V-Snapshot-Development/usr/src/cmd/ps.c
BSD: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-SCCS/usr/src/bin/ps/ps.c
OpenSolaris: https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/7c478bd95313f5f23a4c958a745db2134aa03244/usr/src/cmd/ps/ps.c
A new #blog post appears!
Installing Oracle Developer Studio 12.6 on OpenIndiana, a tale of lies.
Join me as I install Oracle's proprietary compiler suite on an open source Illumos distro, despite Oracle's best attempts to stop me.
