Archive for the 'Solaris' Category

Dual Dual Core Opterons, 16 GB RAM and 48 TB storage in 4U!

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Sun just announced the release of its new Sun Fire X4500 server into the market. Most people will just dismiss it as another “big” box from a dying Unix vendor. I do not normally blog about server computing hardware. However, this new machine deserves some special attention.

Fast, energy-efficient dual-core AMD Opteron processors. This server […]

Nexenta: OpenSolaris Core and Ubuntu UserLand

Monday, July 10th, 2006

Previously, I wrote an article entitled Fun with Solaris 10 where I reviewed the official Sun-released Solaris 10 operating system and the Belenix OpenSolaris LiveCD distribution. I did even more browsing on possible things to do with OpenSolaris. Right now, I am checking out another OpenSolaris-based distribution. This one is called Nexenta. What makes this […]

Fun with Solaris 10

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

I have a copy of Solaris 10 lying on my desk since August of 2005. I was not really able to get around to checking it out until lately. However, while searching for new things to run in my VMWare system I bumped into Belenix.
BeleniX is an OpenSolaris distribution which is currently in the […]