Monthly Archives: January 2010

Preliminary Text Install Images for b131

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

Yesterday the OpenSolaris Install team released their first preliminary version of OpenSolaris which is capable of installing without a GUI, meaning entirely text based, this is great news and in due time now that SXCE is being pulled. It should … Continue reading →

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Quick HOWTO: Sun DHCP daemon

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

Sun’s own DHCP daemon is not often used for anything besides Jumpstart/PXE boot and SunRay’s presumably because it’s not as well documented and accepted as the ISC DHCP daemon. I recently had a need to quickly setup a DHCP server … Continue reading →

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Nevada: What’s going, what’s staying, what’s changing, what’s not

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

Allan Coopersmitch has posted a short explanation of what is going on now that SXCE (Solaris Express Community Edition) will no longer be available past january 2010. There’s been some confusion over the upcoming changes as SXCE ends while Nevada … Continue reading →

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The death of NIS+

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

As of OpenSolaris build 130 NIS+ is officially no longer available, refer http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6874309

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