Things I Wish I Knew About Solaris When I First Started. Solaris 10 is a very powerful scalable operating system that feels tightly integrated and highly responsive. However for those of us with a strong Linux or FreeBSD background Solaris can feel a little unfamiliar and even downright confusing. This post is made up of a few things I wish I knew …

Linux Distro OS-tan Wallpapers An OS-tan is an anime character representing a particular OS. Here is one artists rendition of a dozen Linux distro OS-tan made for desktop background use, including Linux-tan. The sizes are up to 1600X1200. The Ubuntu-tan is amazing! read more | digg story

IP Filter and FreeBSD IPF is a very robust firewall included in FreeBSD by default. This is a statefull firewall with logging capabilities that can also be used to NAT a local network in situations where the FreeBSD box is the router. The best way to get IPF working is to compile the kernel with support built in. Although the default kernel has …

Solaris Zones Part 1 So what is a zone? A zone is analogous to a VMware machine but with some distinct advantages as well as some disadvantages. To start explaining zones lets start by comparing it to VMware since most people are familiar with VMware. VMware is a software program that runs on a host operating system,. This could be Windows, Linux, …

ZFS filesystem on Solaris Here is a flash video thanks to http://www.opensolaris.org, which I think explains some of the features of zfs very well. This video should have you wanting more! I am working on a comprehensive tutorial about zfs which should cover this great file system in more detail.

Blog Migrated I just upgraded the blog, It has been migrated from a 800mhz FreeBSD based system to a 2ghz Sun Solaris 10 based system with ZFS storage. The web server is also running in its own isolated container/zone. In migrating I have decided not to import all of the old articles, Instead? I will go through them and pick the best ones to …

Laptop crashes when power source is changed fix Like most people who have complained about this problem I had recently upgraded to mandrake 9.2 and was surprised by the lack of problems usually associated with upgrading distro’s. My surprise turned to horror when I realized the my laptop a Dell Inspiron 8000 would freeze as soon as I …